If Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, why did Donald Trump win the Electoral College?
What is an electoral vote and why did it sway the balance for Donald Trump despite Hillary getting 234,000 more votes than Trump?
How many electors could vote against Trump? Does the Electoral College have the power to reject Trump, or any candidate for that matter, if enough electors decided to change their vote? Why did the founding fathers decide to use electoral votes instead of popular votes to elect presidents? How many votes did Republicans in the US House of Representatives as a group receive in 2016 as compared to their Democratic counterparts? Is the electoral college voting system fair? How many democrats voted for Trump? Can electoral college electors vote for more than one candidate? What will happen if Hillary gets 269 electoral college votes, Trump 264, and McMullin 5 (from Utah? What does the fact that only approximately 26% of eligible voters elected Trump signify? Will the electoral college change their vote if enough people protest against Donald Trump? How will write-in votes for President be counted? I.e. now that far more are *certain* to do so -- how's that work in the electoral college? What percentage of people are voting for Hillary Clinton just because they don't want to vote for Donald Trump? Why did so many Democrats vote for Trump? Should the Electoral College not vote for Trump? How is the electoral college democratic? What does it indicate that less than 19% of all Americans voted for Trump? Why did some voters vote for Obama in 2008/2012 and for Trump in 2016? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having an electoral college over a popular vote? If all US States assigned electoral votes proportionally how different would the US Presidential Election results be? What happens if presidential candidates cannot get the required amount of electoral votes? How could the US electoral voting system be changed? Do Trump hard core supporters believe that polls showing Hillary to win are rigged as well? Will a high voter turnout favor Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Why did so many people vote for Donald Trump? Were the voting machines rigged, given that all Republicans did better than the polls’ forecast? What are the pros & cons of replacing the USA electoral college with a popular vote? Would American politics be more or less polarized if state legislatures picked electors themselves, rather than have them selected by popular vote? What is voter turnout? Can the electoral college stray from its states popular vote? Would the dynamics in Washington change if Hillary won 70% of the popular vote, even if the Republicans held on to the Congress?