![Hillary Clinton widens lead in popular vote: Does it matter?]( "Hillary Clinton widens lead in popular vote: Does it matter?")
Donald Trump won the presidency of the United States on Tuesday, after a long, hard battle against the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. Now winning by more than half a million votes nationwide, Clinton is in a position shared by only four other presidential candidates in American history. Critics of the Electoral College system say that this is just one way in which that system fails the American people, but as supporters of both candidates begin to pick themselves up and move on, does the popular vote count really matter?
