It's helpful in the same way opinion or approval polls are helpful.
It also shows potential for how things could've otherwise gone.
If you wanna use the electoral college, be my guest. But know that making that data is useful is MUCH more difficult. In theory a candidate could win every single state by 0.01% and lose a state by 99%. They would win in a blowout in the EC but in the popular vote they actually lost. And you would get a highly skewed and unhelpful representation of the actual election results
The popular vote result in the US is neither an opinion poll or approval poll. If it was, it would have been helpful, but it's not, because the popular vote would be very different if US election outcomes were determined by the popular vote as opposed to the current system.
> If you wanna use the electoral college, be my guest.
It's part of the constitution of the US, not my personal preference.
It also shows potential for how things could've otherwise gone.
If you wanna use the electoral college, be my guest. But know that making that data is useful is MUCH more difficult. In theory a candidate could win every single state by 0.01% and lose a state by 99%. They would win in a blowout in the EC but in the popular vote they actually lost. And you would get a highly skewed and unhelpful representation of the actual election results