Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Actually, it is a good point that Clinton's selection more closely cleaves to the old manner of selection, except the local party machines are just replaced by a direct Clinton campaign machine. Still poorly executed; untold millions wasted on what? Might as well spend no money and tell people to read her extended platform on her web zone or off.

The popular vote difference is not much to speak of on its own terms. Original projections were a 3-4% over Trump, then when she was well enough defeated and all that was left was to count votes, it was to be ~1%. It has settled around 0.2%. No one should take away that this was a narrow defeat or blame it on the electoral college (anyway the behavior of voters would change without EC considerations). You can't shift the numbers around in a flattering way.

But you may see a change coming regardless with the expansion of the National Interstate Popular Vote Compact. Perhaps this isn't what reformists typically advocate, a total shift to raw popular vote count.
The math simply does not work out for ever getting that compact passed by enough states. Big blue states will only carry it so far, the bottom half of states will never give away their power in the EC. The key states to win over are the swing states that enjoy the election money flooding in to ever think of changing the current system.