Donald Trump predicting Red Wave!!

[TaraJo]

Encourage Democrats to vote when they did and Hillary won the popular vote yet was surpassed due to an incompetent Electoral College that chose to elect Trump instead?  Tell me how does one inform of the importance of voting when voting doesn't matter if the Electoral College makes a decision like that?

And this is one of the reasons I am quickly losing faith in our election system.  

I hear people (usually republicans) tell me that the electoral college is there to make sure we don't ignore less populuos states.  Well, guess what?  It isn't working.  Sure, California, New York and Texas get ignored, but so do states like Wyoming, Oklahoma, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Georgia, Illinois, Washington and Massachusetts.  Candidates from both parties focus exclusively on a handful of battleground states like Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan.  Any other state, small or large, is ignored.  

You want to hear the really ridiculous part of this?  You can win the presidency with 22% of the vote!  That's right, folks: you don't even need to get a quarter of the population to vote for you if you want to be president (even less if you count Puerto Rico, but that's a beside the point).  I don't think that's how a democracy is supposed to work, despite the fact that we've had two of the past five elections with the "winning" candidate losing the popular vote.