It's been 36 years since Republicans won the national popular vote, will this year break the dry spell?

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Cypress

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1988, back deep into the 20th century was the last time a majority/plurality of American voters thought the Republican was the superior choice to lead the nation.

Edit - Correction George Dumbya Bush won the popular vote 20 years ago. One time in the last 36 years


Ther are adult voters who don't remember Republicans ever winning the popular vote.
 
Cypress said:
A long-standing tyranny of the minority is not really what the framers of the constitution intended
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It's what they created, however, and not enough Americans hold them accountable for it.

The form of government that they codified
was rife with illogical compromises
required to unite ideologically incompatible former colonies into a single republic.
 
Cypress said:
1988, back deep into the 20th century was the last time a majority/plurality of American voters thought the Republican was the superior choice to lead the nation.

Edit - Correction George Dumbya Bush won the popular vote 20 years ago. One time in the last 36 years


Ther are adult voters who don't remember Republicans ever winning the popular vote.
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No way will Trump win the popular vote!
 
NiftyNiblick said:
It's what they created, however, and not enough Americans hold them accountable for it.

The form of government that they codified
was rife with illogical compromises
required to unite ideologically incompatible former colonies into a single republic.
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It's a flaw in the system, but there is no way I can logically infer the framers of the constitution expected that one political entity would consistently time after time be given control of the federal government despite continuously having the majority/plurality of eligible voters voting against them.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
If Trump wins the popular vote,
then it's really time to give up.

The Republic as it was envisioned becomes an artifact of history at that point.
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Get ready to give up then. You should be used to it as an X boxer who had his towel thrown in more than a few times...... :)
 
Cypress said:
1988, back deep into the 20th century was the last time a majority/plurality of American voters thought the Republican was the superior choice to lead the nation.

Edit - Correction George Dumbya Bush won the popular vote 20 years ago. One time in the last 36 years


Ther are adult voters who don't remember Republicans ever winning the popular vote.
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Doubtful since they've become the Party of Trump.

Watching "Republicans" defend Trump is just sad and I strongly doubt that Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan would approve.
 
Cypress said:
It's a flaw in the system, but there is no way I can logically infer the framers of the constitution expected that one political entity would consistently time after time be given control of the federal government despite continuously having the majority/plurality of eligible voters voting against them.
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The framers pictured the autonomy of individual states
to be almost like the autonomy of the individual nations in the future European Union.

They envisioned the central government to have little authority in day to day to day life,
in non-international matters,
because they didn't trust strong central government on principle.

Many still applaud this concept.
My personal take is that they fucked up monumentally.
 
Cypress said:
1988, back deep into the 20th century was the last time a majority/plurality of American voters thought the Republican was the superior choice to lead the nation.

Edit - Correction George Dumbya Bush won the popular vote 20 years ago. One time in the last 36 years


Ther are adult voters who don't remember Republicans ever winning the popular vote.
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2004 was even questionable bc of suppression in Ohio, and Bush only got like 50.3%. BARELY a majority.
 
Cypress said:
1988, back deep into the 20th century was the last time a majority/plurality of American voters thought the Republican was the superior choice to lead the nation.

Edit - Correction George Dumbya Bush won the popular vote 20 years ago. One time in the last 36 years


Ther are adult voters who don't remember Republicans ever winning the popular vote.
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They are the minority in this nation.
 
The breakdown of the old Republican party is actually a good thing and it represents progress, we have to deal with trumpism for a while, but the old way has dissolved and the new way will be better.

Its a two steps forward one step back sort of thing, we are done with the Conservatives, or at least the Conservatives have reluctantly taken the preverbal two steps forward. Gone are the days of the Drug War, and Fighting Communism, and quiet racism.

Sexism is having its last gasp.
 
Due to the massive Democrat Vote-Fraud Machine, particularly, the Ballot Tabulator Conversion Fraud, Trump will win the honest election, but by the next morning, the Fraud will have changed the outcome to a Harris win.

Not only will Trump not win the popular vote, by the time the fraud votes are counted, Trump will lose the election.

America is a failed state.

2016 was the last free and fair American election.

But the good news is, the Elites and Hostile foreigners who arranged the fraud and Presidential Puppets, won't profit from it for long. And it is likely that during the chaos of the coming civil-war, they will be murdered for the food in their pantries.

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Kurmugeon said:
Due to the massive Democrat Vote-Fraud Machine, particularly, the Ballot Tabulator Conversion Fraud, Trump will win the honest election, but by the next morning, the Fraud will have changed the outcome to a Harris win.

Not only will Trump not win the popular vote, by the time the fraud votes are counted, Trump will lose the election.

America is a failed state.

2016 was the last free and fair American election.

But the good news is, the Elites and Hostile foreigners who arranged the fraud and Presidential Puppets, won't profit from it for long. And it is likely that during the chaos of the coming civil-war, they will be murdered for the food in their pantries.

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MAGAt rule #9 Always believe any conspiracy theory that is anti-government, anti-Democrat and/or anti-”woke”
I❤Conspiracy Theorists

Will you become violent if Trump loses, K?
 
Cypress said:
It's a flaw in the system, but there is no way I can logically infer the framers of the constitution expected that one political entity would consistently time after time be given control of the federal government despite continuously having the majority/plurality of eligible voters voting against them.
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They were trying to grow the nation

Encouraging new states to be carved from all that empty land
 
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