Politics... Truth is, I think it's all hilarious... the Joker would be proud. This country is too big for a real democracy. You can't count 400 million votes without some votes being marginalized... discounted.. thrown out... what have you. So we have this whole electoral college thing whereby your votes (that don't matter) are weighed and measured and what not and thrown into this system of arbitration..... and boom.. the electoral college is said to represent this consensus