America's system has never been adequate at representing the publics views because it wasn't designed to. The problem you describe should only be limited to the House of Representatives, but idiots decided to promote the idea that the public choose the Senate as well and before that, the President. They were even too lazy to get rid of the system of electorates for the President and instead just tried to adapt it to the publics vote that now you get laughable results where the guy with the popular vote loses.