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@gameragodzilla @therealpennyfortheguy In fact the margin was bigger because your country doesn't have mandatory voting, but that's a good thing.
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@nerthos @therealpennyfortheguy The reason the Electoral College works the way it does is due to small states not wanting big states to crowd them out completely. Same reason for the two houses of Congress. One house is based on population size, the other has equal representation for all states.
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@gameragodzilla Otherwise you get what happens where I live where Buenos Aires decides the election by itself, despite being one of 25 electoral districts.
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@nerthos or two rather but still.
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@nerthos Pretty much. Literally all of Clinton's "popular vote win" comes from California. Remove California and she would've lost that bit handily too. Hence why in the Electoral College system, California still has the most electorates by far, but there's still an upper limit so it doesn't just become the sole dominating hegemony for the entire Western United States.
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