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No. The popular vote for each state determines the ELECTORAL COLLEGE votes, which add up to declare the winner. In this way, if a candidate wins the top states, but not the popular vote, he/she will still become president.

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four times in history 4 presidents were in office, not by popular voting. The last was in 2000

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