jtdavis posted:While you're googling him google electoral college and how it works.
Best, I know how the republicans gerrymandered state districts to help ensure that republicans would win state and local elections. I had no idea they had been able to allocate electoral votes to achieve the same thing on a national level. When you check out each states population and the number of electoral votes they have, it has been done.
Gerrymandering is the whiney Democrat excuse. The Republican won control of 68 of the 99 state assemblies, which set districts for the House, with as near equal populations as possible. However, except for two states, that had nothing to do with winning the electoral college votes. Only Maine and Nebraska divide their electoral votes by percentage of the vote. Maine went Democrat and Nebraska went Republican. Trump won by wining the largest number of electoral votes in enough states. The old rust belt states -- Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and (probably Michigan) put him well over the top. Democrats took those states for granted.