Our president has never been chosen by popular vote! In fact, this was the 7th election where the president did not win the popular vote. We have never been a federal democracy, we are a representative republic! If we were a democracy, our country would have turned into a monarchy or a dictatorship, the thing that drove us to revolt against the king. If you would study our history just a bit, you would realize that your popular vote joke, would send us back to being under a king.