Musicmystery
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam I guess you could say that a combination of gerrymandering and "I'm not Hillary" won over "I'm not Trump" Kinda sad when you think about it. When is the last time the American people overwhelmingly voted FOR someone? I would say 2008 Obama. Obviously it wasn't a landslide and there was opposition, but his campaign was still a relatively positive one with a quasi-socialist bent that a lot of people latched onto. Of course, it didn't even begin to turn out that way, but it proved that a lot of Americans have an appetite for actual leftism and want what other developed western nations have. Hillary was a step backwards from that, which made zero sense. It wasn't so much that the left rejected her, just that she didn't give them enough of what they wanted... so they stayed home. Low turnouts always favor Republican candidates. There's an interesting adjusted table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_Electoral_College_margin#Table_of_election_results In "modern" presidents, after Reagan would be Johnson, then FDR, then Eisenhower, then Bush I, then Clinton, then Obama (67%). Trump, on the other hand, is only the 5th US president to win without the popular vote: In 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected president despite not winning either the popular vote or the electoral vote. Andrew Jackson was the winner in both categories. Jackson received 38,000 more popular votes than Adams, and beat him in the electoral vote 99 to 84. Despite his victories, Jackson didn’t reach the majority 131 votes needed in the Electoral College to be declared president. In fact, neither candidate did. The decision went to the House of Representatives, which voted Adams into the White House. In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the election (by a margin of one electoral vote), but he lost the popular vote by more than 250,000 ballots to Samuel J. Tilden. In 1888, Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency. But Harrison lost the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes. In 2000, George W. Bush was declared the winner of the general election and became the 43rd president, but he didn’t win the popular vote either. Al Gore holds that distinction, garnering about 540,000 more votes than Bush. However, Bush won the electoral vote, 271 to 266. In 2016, Donald Trump won the electoral vote by 304 to 227 over Hillary Clinton, but Trump lost the popular vote. Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump, according to an analysis by the Associated Press of the certified results in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/presidents-winning-without-popular-vote/
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