How to become president with 22% of the vote(Description in comments)

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persondotcom_idunno on June 28th, 2020 at 05:37 UTC »

*From a CGPGrey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k*

If you would get 50.1% of the vote of each red-coloured state, 22% of the population of the country, you would become president, even if 78% of the country voted for another person, this is assuming that 49.9% of people in the the red-coloured states voted for the blue party, and 100% of the people in the blue-coloured states voted for the blue party.

NOTE: The colours dont mean anything

milesgmsu on June 28th, 2020 at 06:17 UTC »

You can take it a step further.

You could win with 12 votes TOTAL!

Soccerfun101 on June 28th, 2020 at 07:19 UTC »

Actually, you can win with 0% percent of the vote. If all the electors in the electoral college said to hell with the popular vote, they could choose someone who wasn't even running.