While you are absolutely correct that the presidency was won by the minority of voters, its not really correct to say the same for congress. Within the house o

While you are absolutely correct that the presidency was won by the minority of voters, its not really correct to say the same for congress. Within the house of reps where everyone is up for election every 2 years, the republicans won the popular vote. The senate is trickier as only a 3rd of senators have an election at any given time, thus the differentials are skewed based on which states are voting at a given time. in 2016: democrats won 53% of the vote, republicans 43% in 2014: democrats won 43% of the vote, republicans 52% in 2012: democrats won 53% of the vote, republicans 43% Part of the problem when comparing popular votes nationally is that you often have situations in CA where the two candidates running for office in the general election are both democrats. when the sum total of those votes is 10m, or the differential between the number of votes the republicans received nationally and the number democrats received nationally, is it fair to complain about a lack of representation? Other times within house races there wont even be a challenger.