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The electoral college is like your team scoring 48 points to your opponents 44 points in a basket ball game but your opponent wins because his 44 points earned him more electoral college votes and the electors declared that 44 is a higher number than 48 and to hell with mathematics. I'm pretty sure that if your basket ball team lost a game that way you'd be pissed as hell. You should choose your analogies more carefully next time. You love this situation because you get to win elections despite losing the popular vote and that allows you to shove your values down the throats of the majority of the populace. That's a lot of things but it's not winning an election, it's gaming an election. There is something really perverse about a system that allowed Donald Trump to win by a landslide with fewer votes than Mitt Romney lost.
The electoral college is like your team scoring 29 baskets to your opponents 20 baskets in a basket ball game but your opponent wins because his 20 three pointers earned him more electoral college votes and the electors declared that 20 three pointers are a higher number than 29 two pointers and to hell with mathematics.