The BBC educates us.

"When Americans take part in November's presidential election, most of them will cast a vote for either Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump.

But those votes don't directly determine who wins. Instead of a national race it's a state-by-state race.

Winning one of the 50 states means that candidate collects all the so-called electoral college votes.

There are 538 electoral college votes in total.

A candidate needs to gain a majority of the votes - 270 or more - to win the presidency."

"In some states, electors can "theoretically" vote for whichever candidate they prefer, regardless of who voters backed.

In 2016, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton after polling almost three million fewer votes.

In 2000, George W Bush defeated Al Gore even though the Democratic candidate won the popular vote by more than half a million.

Read the rest of the analysis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53558176

I'm also an American and can remember high school teachers at a loss trying to explain why the country still has this antequated electoral system. As noted above, the result with Bush and Trump becoming president when they lost brought catastrophy to America and Americans.

I attended American schools and remember studying their political system and found it bizzare.

Elections should matter.

2000 Gore won the most votes, BushJr. Got the Electoral vote.

It was Bush who invaded Iraq and Unleashed instability in the region.

Social media is revealing a great number of women who like Vance's personality but don't mention his policies.

Millions of educated women voted for Trump in 2016. He lost the election but became president.

Here is the voter demographics of the 2016 election which Clinton won.

Finally someone writing the truth.

Clinton won the popular vote in 2016. The American people voted her in but she lost by the electoral college.

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/president