Another thing people miss in the "Electoral College means a lot of places get ignored" argument: the primary process gives many of these same voters a big voice. Northeastern Republicans played a pivotal role in nominating Trump, rural black Southerners in nominating Obama.
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Another example I didn't have room for: 1888. The ex-Confederate states (not very ex, in 1888) voted 61-37 for Cleveland. Rest of the country went 50-46 for Harrison. Cleveland won only 1 state (CT) that wasn't a slave state in 1860. Cleveland won pop. vote by 0.83% & lost.
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Should Cleveland have won that election? He lost the six largest states. His regional appeal was so narrow, as an incumbent POTUS, he couldn't even win the state where he'd been Governor 4 years before & that had made him POTUS.
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Cleveland carried the national popular vote, 48.6% to 47.8%, solely b/c he won Texas by 41 pts. He won 82% in SC, 70+% in MS, LA, GA. Did that make him a more legitimate representative of a majority of the voters than Benjamin Harrison, who won only 1 state (VT) with > 58%?
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I wonder if you would still be writing this drivel if there were 2 D presidents in the last 20 years who headed a government lost the popular vote. Minority rule is your party's only electoral strategy going forward.
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Question - if the size of the House had been double in 2016, would it have changed the final result?
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I believe not.
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It isn’t destabilizing to have a President elected over the objections of most Americans?
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Sure. But the system is designed to legitimize minority presidents. A majority voted against Bill Clinton twice, Hillary, Gore, JFK, etc.
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Gore won nationally by 0.5%. Bush won Florida by 0.009%. There wouldn’t have been a national recount.
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