Senate to vote on new gun proposals this afternoon

[XBowHunter]

Nope - six of the last eight ASSUMING she wins. Last seven elections with the popular vote winner are:

2012 - Obama
2008 - Obama
2004 - Bush
2000 - Gore - This is the outlier - Bush lost the popular vote but won the electoral
1996 - Clinton
1992 - Clinton
1988 - Bush

Q: How many times was a president elected who did not win the popular vote?
A: It has happened four times.
FULL ANSWER
The 2000 election was the most recent when the candidate who received the greatest number of electoral votes, and thus won the presidency, didn’t win the popular vote. But this scenario has played out in our nation’s history before.
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.
– D’Angelo Gore

Sources

Office of the Federal Register, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Web site, 2000 Presidential Election: Electoral Vote Totals, 12 March 2008
Office of the Federal Register, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Web site, 2000 Presidential Election: Popular Vote Totals, 12 March 2008
Office of the Federal Register, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Web site, Historical Election Results: 1789-2004 Presidential Elections, 12 March 2008

you are partially correct. it will be 6 of the last 7 if she wins and 7 of the last 8 if she is re-elected.

from what the GOP has shown me in the last 2 decades, they don't have a chance...

[str8shooter]

you are partially correct. it will be 6 of the last 7 if she wins and 7 of the last 8 if she is re-elected.

from what the GOP has shown me in the last 2 decades, they don't have a chance...

Dude, go read your original post. Post 44. You said if she wins, it will be 7 of the last 8 elections where the Dems won the popular vote. Right now we are at five of the last seven. If she wins it will be six of the last eight. I can't believe you are now jumping forward to her RE-election when she hasn't even won the first one. I provided my references. I'm 100% correct in my wording and my facts. SMDH


str8shooter

[XBowHunter]

Dude, go read your original post. Post 44. You said if she wins, it will be 7 of the last 8 elections where the Dems won the popular vote. Right now we are at five of the last seven. If she wins it will be six of the last eight. I can't believe you are now jumping forward to her RE-election when she hasn't even won the first one. I provided my references. I'm 100% correct in my wording and my facts. SMDH


str8shooter

ok, forget bush... or why not add Reagan?

i jumped way ahead of myself when i claimed 7 of 8, because i believe the GOP is done until they move to the center and they do not seem capable of doing that. and i assumed hillary will win re-election.

your numbers are correct, but i'm not counting bush, sorry.

my point is this is a MAJOR trend and the GOP doesn't care.

[Thundervee]

Hook, line, and sinker.....


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