This is the fifth time someone running for president wins the popular vote but loses the election. The last time this happened was in the election of 2000. Most of the time you would expect the popular vote and electoral college vote to align but that's not the case.
"Often times the popular vote winner in very close election will win the electoral college vote and it actually increases relatively to the popular vote in the electoral college, some people look like they won by a land slide in the electoral college when they really didn't win a land-slide in the popular vote. In this particular election as you can see, they essentially tied, Hilary Clinton is a little bit up, maybe by 200,000 votes across the country but Donald Trump look's like he won a big electoral college victory because the way electoral college votes are counted," says Robert Alexander, Professor at ONU.
Alexander says there's a lot of argumentation about the electoral college, he says some people think they should move to a more proportional representation. He thinks that if this was to happen it would encourage third parties to run in various regions of the country.
"There's a big disincentive, a big motivation for political parties to not to do that. They want to maintain the two party system, so that win and take all feature really benefits the 2 party system," says Alexander.
He say there cold be some momentum to change the electoral college in the upcoming years, but he says it's going to be very difficult.
