The electoral college, which determines the Presidency, and the United States Senate, are arguably "undemocratic."
Under the electoral college, Trump became President even though Clinton got 3,000,000 more votes than Trump.
As to the United States Senate, the 25 least populous states have about one-sixth the total United States population, and those 25 states have 50 of the 100 Senators in the U.S. Senate.
Trump has repeatedly bragged about his Presidential win, calling it a "landslide." This has stuck in the craw of the Democrats and accentuated the arguable unfairness of Trump being President even though he got 3,000,000 less votes.
In the 2018 elections, people have become attuned to arguably "unfair" control that the Republicans have over the Senate due to the disproportionate number of Senators that populations in smaller states have.
The contentiousness that this "unfairness" has spawned will continue after Nov. 6th. The Republicans will staunchly defend the status quo, and the Democrats will press the case that the status quo is undemocratic.
Besides continuing to cite the undemocratic result of Trump being President despite getting 3,000,000 votes less Clinton, the Democrats will also likely cite voting statistics in the 2018 elections, such as the total vote that Democratic Congressional candidates get compared to the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get.
The more that the total vote nationwide for Democratic Congressional candidates exceeds the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get nationwide, the more compelling the case the Democrats can make about the "unfairness" of the electoral college and the United States Senate.
That excess can also be used for the Democrats to press the case against partisan gerrymandering by the Republicans.
The Democratic Congressional candidates (except for Terri Sewell) may have no chance of winning, but voters should think about getting as many votes for those Democratic candidates as possible, because such votes will count favorably in the nationwide vote totals described above.
This should be used as an incentive and argument to get voters to the polls on November 6th to vote for the Democratic candidates.
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