Don't know much about history
From Elliotte Rusty Harold at Cafe au Lait:
It just keeps getting worse. First, the 2000 elections revealed that getting the most votes was not really connected to winning in U.S. elections, even when the voting machines accurately counted the votes, which, it turns out, they don't.
Unless you were sleeping, the 2000 elections shouldn't have taught you that; your high school teacher should have. It's called the Electoral College.