[joeysteele]

As with our own elections and now 2 USA going this way in half of the 4 elections held there since 2000.
I think the popular vote result Countrywide should be the main deciding element to victory.

No individual should, in my view,be given or assume power if they have not at the very least come top of the voting across a whole Country.

I say the same here in the UK,of course normally here the govt; does at least consist of the party who gets the most votes, usually taking power either singly or in coalition.
However our flaw is that such govts; can at present in our now outdated electoral system, take power only getting just over a third of all votes cast.

The USA or anywhere that claims to be a democracy at all, should never have an instance where someone not getting the most votes across the Nation in a election can then, because of a clearly unrepresentative electoral college system, get a really strong mandate for taking power from that.
Even worse still is that neither got over 50% of the votes anyway.