Originally Posted by mineistaken

Idiot, he did not lose because popular vote was not the target.

It is like saying football team lost a match because they kicked less corners while goals is what was the target.

Of course popular vote makes more sense than corners, but the point is - both parties play for the determined target (electoral vote) and they do not "lose" in all the irrelevant targets (corners or popular vote in these 2 examples).