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> If you look at a county by county map of the US election 2016 results...

Counties don't vote. Further, most counties have very low populations.

Two facts about the 2016 election matter:

- Hillary Clinton got 65,844,610 votes; Donald Trump got 62,979,636 .

- Donald Trump got 304 electoral votes; Hillary Clinton got 227 .

As long as those two kinds of vote disagree, we have extreme tension in the United States.

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That's true, but it's also by design. If winning five counties would be enough to win the election, then it would very much change politics and the kinds of issues we find in presidential politics (Iowa, etc.) would disappear. It's not perfect but it's very much preferable to a popular vote system, even though sometimes a candidate wins who we don't like.

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