Yes, and I say something that sounds very similar to this every time a colleague says "but, but, but what about the popular vote?" What non-USAians need to unde

Yes, and I say something that sounds very similar to this every time a colleague says "but, but, but what about the popular vote?" What non-USAians need to understand is that what you call "the popular vote" simply does not matter with regard to how votes are tallied or counted. In the US votes are counted by state and that is one reason why we have an Electoral College. It is the way our system is set up to work, and the founders already hammered this out hundreds of years ago in the days of the early republic.