I'm not arguing about the result. I'm not even bitter, just a bit disappointed and worried, and quite amused. The result speak for themselves, and under the current system, Trump is clearly the winner without doubt. I didn't event say my opinion about the current system. All I pointed out was that your choice of words was very poor, because you're talking about pissing on democracy, when in fact the majority voted for Clinton. That's not a take on the system, I simply pointed out that it's not as black and white as you make it out be. If Trump ends up winning the popular vote in the end, I'm fine with it, and your comment is more justified, but I don't think the final results are in yet.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to point of how incorrect most analyses were. They were reasonable predictions, they were wrong, and they need to be improved or they'll lose some of their relevance (just like they should if they're not accurate enough).

And just for the record, I think the voting system is stupid. It's stupid in the US, it's stupid here in Finland, and if it's the same in Sweden, then it's stupid there as well. I don't even care about who would benefit from changing the system. The system has some basis in cases where regional representation should be somehow guaranteed (although I still think it's unjust), but there's pretty much no reason to have such a system for a presidential election. I also think election thresholds suck, and they're an extremely anti-democratic practice.

Of course it is stupid, and historically it has always favored the bigger, established parties against the up and coming ones.

Almost all states have a winner-takes-it-all system, so the candidate with the most votes will get all of the electoral votes of that state. Maine is one of only a couple of exceptions who assign electoral votes relative to the attained percentages during the election.

I just want to say fuck the electoral college and I'm never voting again. If your state goes against you then your vote doesn't count.  Don't tell me my vote counts when it doesn't.

Fuck the democrats and republicans.  USA is void of any good leaders.

But in the context of our media analysis the popular vote played no role. You're bringing up an enitrely different topic. In our media we're having the same discussion as we had after Brexit. Media simply saying that the people chose wrong. Which to me is pissing on the will of the people and on democracy, at least in the way it's portrayed here. Sickening really.

People not voting is what got us into this mess in the first place.

Be more interested with the inclusion of the third party votes in 2000 and 2016.

That isn't an example of a loss despite getting the majority of the popular vote, unless another party got a bigger share of the votes. Your example sounds more like tiny minorities who didn't clear a specified percentage threshold (I think virtually all democratic countries have that, sitting anywhere between 3-5%) getting their votes wiped, so they got no seats in the parliament; resulting from that, a less than 50% share of the original votes turned into a greater than 50% share on the remaining votes for the party who received the most votes.

Ah, I think I see your point now. I kind of agree with you, and at the same time I don't. It's not nice when it's against your opinion, but I think media has the responsibility to not just mindlessly report everything they learn. Media have the right to express opinions as well. One such opinion is that the people voted incorrectly, if that opinion is given a reasonable explanation. It can be done reasonably, but if it gets out of hand, it's obviously bad. I haven't personally noticed things getting out of hand, but then again, I have chosen to follow only media that reports things fairly reasonably. Your experience could well be different.

EDIT: I noticed your edit after posting this, but I got it already! Not initially, but for this post I did. ^^