Why is it bad that a president can be elected without winning the popular vote? i'm writing an essay on abolishing the electoral college, and i need a little in wording why having a president who lost the majority of votes would be detrimental to the united states.

One of the things that was limited in terms of the Emancipation Proclamation was that "b.Not all slaves left plantations immediately in response to the news out of fear that it was not permanent," since many did not even know that the Proclamation had been issued.