The above image is the electoral map of the United States for the 2016 Presidential Elections between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In the end Donald Trump won the election with 306 Electoral Votes against Hillary Clinton’s 232 votes. The map however does not show the actual distribution of votes based off of each vote casted. The map only shows what the result of the electoral vote is and because of that, the additional information of the popular vote which the electoral vote is based off of is left out. The votes for the candidate that came in second are omitted and therefore the impact of their votes in the bigger picture is left unsaid. For example, there are more states that are red than blue and therefore someone could draw to a conclusion that Donald Trump also won the popular vote too. However, this is not true since more people voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.
Image Source: http://electoralmap.net/2016/results.php