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The electoral vote is the one that determines who becomes president, so that one probably matters more if you care who wins.

There is actually no legal reason for calculating the national popular vote; it is merely a courtesy to the curious. The popular vote matters only on the state level (for choosing most of the electors) and the district level (for choosing five of the electors in two states). That is why the popular vote does not exist for many of the elections before every state started using the popular vote as its method for choosing its electors.

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