The actions taken by the Founding Fathers make it clear that they never gave their imprimatur to the winner-take-all method. The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes became dominant only in the 1830s, when most of the Founders had been dead for decades, after the states adopted it, one-by-one, in order to maximize the power of the party in power in each state.

The constitutional wording does not encourage, discourage, require, or prohibit the use of any particular method for awarding a state’s electoral votes.

Voters in the biggest cities are almost exactly balanced out by rural areas in terms of population and partisan composition.

16% of the U.S. population lives outside the nation’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Rural America has voted 60% Republican. None of the 10 most rural states matter now.

16% of the U.S. population lives in the top 100 cities. They voted 63% Democratic in 2004.
The population of the top 50 cities (going as far down as Arlington, TX) is only 15% of the population of the United States.

Suburbs divide almost exactly equally between Republicans and Democrats.

Before this election, in Gallup polls since they began asking in 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states) (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided).

On 60 Minutes on November 13, 2016, President-Elect Trump reaffirmed his long-standing opposition to the current method of electing the President and said:
“ I would rather see it, where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes, and somebody else gets 90 million votes, and you win. There’s a reason for doing this. Because it brings all the states into play.”

In 2012, Trump tweeted, “the Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy” and called it “a total sham and a travesty.”

Jeez, yes. When I set out to reply to some of oldgulph’s regurgitations I did not realize I’d be debating an effing robot programmed by the DNC.
Maybe CWD needs one of those ‘captcha’ things that says: ‘I am not a robot’.

What dank ancient cave and tribe he from?

Short and pithy!

Fact shows you are right. If not for large, communist population centers, she lost in a landslide.

God Bless the founders for knowing better.