Donald Trump won the popular vote in 30 states. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 20 states. The Electoral College was designed to ensure that the popular vote in one state could not decide the next president of the United States, which is exactly what would have happened on November 8 without the Electoral College. Had the popular vote decided the presidency, Hillary Clinton would be our president-elect with a slim margin of approximately 940,176 votes mostly from the state of California.
California has long been known as the center of the elitist left-wing universe. Californians voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, just as they did for Barack Obama and almost every Democratic president since 1988 - when George HW Bush followed in Ronald Reagan's footsteps by winning the state for the last time. California's 55 electoral votes have helped Bill Clinton and Barack Obama occupy the White House for a total of 16 years, but 2016 gave the power back to blue-collar Americans living in what is offensively known today as the "rust belt". Historically, some of America's most populous states have always leaned toward the Democratic Party, while Southern states have leaned Republican, giving swing states like Florida the power to pick presidents. In 2016, Donald Trump re-drew the electoral map by flipping traditionally Democratic states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. These states would have been left powerless - and their voters inconsequential - without the Electoral College.
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