"Hillary Clinton won at least 1.4 million more votes than Donald Trump, but still lost the presidential contest because her votes came from the wrong combination of states. That's made her one of just five people in U.S. history to win the popular vote and lose the electoral college.
The first three were in the 1800s, and it happened again in 2000 with Al Gore's electoral college loss to George W. Bush. That contest was complicated by other concerns including butterfly ballots and the Supreme Court, making Clinton the first pure victim of the Electoral College in the modern era.
Not surprisingly, the outcome has provoked an outpouring of demands for change."
~ http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/partisan-opposition-electoral-college-may-make-it-harder-change-n686041
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