It would really make sense to campaign for preferential voting at this point; libertarians and other political groups are getting especially shafted.
Something that should be heavily pursued, we also wouldn't have gotten bush 43, Gore would've won without a doubt, as the Ralph Nader votes most likely shift to Gore. Gore technically won anyway with full recount of all votes in florida(http://www.factcheck.org/2008/01/the-florida-recount-of-2000/) We should get rid of the electoral college.
I agree with what you both say, the system is bad, but this is the least of the problems. Voters aren't informed, and an easy way to fix this would be like so: have the candidates all put frains that they make, which can highlight what they support, and redflag what the other candidates support, and it wouldn't be biased since all candidates would be making it. This kind of thing would discourage casual voting, or voting on charisma (something that drives many Trump supporters, and I can see why, I agree that Trump has the most likeable attitude of them all. But what he says, and more weightily, what he plans to do, are full crap. And you'd assign weight to each frain, and then your 1 vote would be split into decims amongst each candidate by how much you agree with their policies.
I did a small analysis on Warlight, after several folk took an American presidential candidate quiz and posted what % matches they got. Results: (
http://imgh.us/politchart_3.png). Though it's evidently a pretty small and biased sample size, Gary Johnson was on average most liked based on data of who posted their match. But if everyone voted the one they liked the most, Sanders would get the most votes, winning even though he has less of an average match than Johnson.
Trump actually inspires enthusiasm in a lot of people, where those voting Clinton do it because they have always voted Democrat, or because they've been lied to by the media that Trump is a racist misogynist homophobe shitlord.
This is irrevelant. His charisma is irrelevant (and he is against gay marriage, so I guess homophobic is a right word to say - and he is a shitlord, you'd be daft if you didn't think all the mainstream candidates were).