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The fact that one can win the popular vote and still lose is a yuuuuge part of what’s wrong with our fucked up voting system.
One single current supreme court justice was appointed by a republican president who won the popular vote.
There's six of them.
That's an astounding fact that speaks to the much deeper problem.
The SCOTUS, the Senate, and the Electoral College are all relics of a government designed by and fore landed gentry that explicitly did not want a popular government in control.
I still tend to look back on GHWB as probably the most moderate, institutional-minded GOP POTUS of my lifetime, yet I see Thomas as probably the most radically right-wing and corrupt Justices of my lifetime.
Thinking about it now makes me want to ask, "how could that have happened?!" But then I think back and remember how it happened.
Popular vote should just be the vote.
Unfortunately it's just too popular.
I wish, but once again, the system is set up to give those tiny states way too much power. Overrepresented in the Senate, House, and Electoral College votes.
We're always one Brooks Brothers Riot away from the election being hijacked by a handful of well-placed political operatives.
There hasn’t been a single time a republican has won the popular vote since like 1988 except the one time there was a fake war behind em.
Bush Sr. won the popular vote in 88 and Reagan won the popular vote in both 84 and 80. You're right about 2000 and 2016 but let's not exaggerate.
Must be 88 not 76
I'm pretty sure the war was real, millions of dead Iraqis would probably agree (if they weren't dead).
I think you may mean the justifications for the war were fake.
Because the war was very, very real.
Yes that’s what I meant.