I've been hearing it all day. They keep saying that this alleged election proves that your vote counts. Not true. Suppose you vote for the candidate of your choice, but he doesn't carry your state. All of your state's electorial votes go to the other candidate. Where is your vote? It never left your state. It had nothing to do with the outcome of the election. It doesn't matter if the candidate who won your state got 100% of the votes or only 51%. He still gets all of the state's votes as if everybody in the state voted for him.

The electorial college may have been a good idea when all votes were on paper and were counted by hand. Election returns in those days traveled at the speed of a horse. It could be days, even weeks before the election was decided and an equal time before the results were known all over the country. It is a system from the past and that's where it belongs. In the past.
Howard