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Nobody gamed the electoral college this election. Trump won the popular vote too.

Many voters are voting for the lesser of two evils; they don't like either candidate. Non-voters are simply taking that to the next level: they can't decide between two evils strongly enough to value casting a vote.

Bikeshedding over the difference between active vs passive votes in a single-winner first-past-the-post election is fruitless.

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If they're truly both evils, there's always the option to do a write-in vote for someone else. Futile? Sure. But hopefully headlines like "X won the election with 30% of the vote" would start to raise eyebrows in ways that "X won the election with 49% of the vote" doesn't.

Go back and read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212390

“voted for by >50%” is what I’m refuting. It’s literally, factually untrue.

I didn't argue that Trump received ≥50% of votes cast.

GP's point was that far less than 50% cared enough to vote against Trump, which was their only real option if they didn't like him.

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