Sorry, you are comprehension challenged. What part of this statement did you not understand "
On a national level, the head of state, the President, is elected indirectly by the people, through an Electoral College."
This statement "
State law regulates how states cast their electoral college votes. In all states except Maine and Nebraska, the candidate that wins the most votes in the state receives all its electoral college votes (a "winner takes all" system)" talks about
electoral votes, not popular votes. Talks about winner receiving all the votes the
electors have casted for other parties too. In the other 2 states of Nebraska and Maine, the votes casted for the opposition is not accrued to the winner's account.
Popular votes are what people vote which
may vary widely with the electoral votes, and account for nothing much.
I do not expect dimwits to understand anything, leave alone English, but still I try.
To help dimwits like you understand further, I had posted this link.
Final 2012 Presidential Election Electoral and Popular Vote
This was the pattern of actual votes in 2012 elections.
Electoral votes: The final tally was Obama
332, Romney
206 for President.
Popular votes: The
final popular vote totals were 65,899,660 for Obama-Biden (51.1%) and 60,932,152 (47.2%) for Romney-Ryan
See the difference? Obama had just 51.1% of popular vote compared to Romney who had 47.2%. A difference of 4%. While the electoral college vote difference is Obama 332 and Romney 206, a difference of more than 50%