If current projections hold, Hillary Clinton will soon become the second presidential nominee to win the popular vote yet lose the electoral college – and thus the White House – in the past five US presidential elections. Trump himself leveled a critique in 2012 when Barack Obama won re-election in the popular and electoral vote handily. In 2000, George W Bush defeated Al Gore on a razor-thin margin of five electoral votes while losing the popular vote by more than a half million votes. One potential workaround that has been proposed is Koza’s so-called national popular vote legislation. National popular vote advocates counter that, under the current system, only about 12 battleground states ever get any attention anyway.

Source: The Guardian November 09, 2016 21:39 UTC