Quote (Sioux @ 20 Dec 2023 04:12)
What would you call it if a party has only won the national popular vote in a presidential race once in 30 years?
1. Neither side is running a campaign aimed at maximizing their share of the popular vote, so we don't really know if the margins would shift a couple of percent in one direction or the other if they did.
2. Republicans have won the popular vote in plenty of House election over the past 30 years, so the notion that they're a clear-cut minority who never get a mandate from voters isn't based in reality.
3. Mass immigration and demographic change contribute significantly to the Democratic edge in terms of raw numbers. GHWB in 1988 and Romney in 2012 won white, black and hispanic voters by nearly identical margins. Yet what was good enough for a landslide Republican win in 1988 produced a solid Democratic victory just 24 years later.
edit: another interesting piece of data regarding the tired old argument that Trump's win in 2016 went "against the will of the people": if we go down to the most granular voting data at the precinct level, it can be shown that a majority of Americans in 2016 lived in precincts won by Trump:
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 19 2023 09:24pm