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maddiemom

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19. Actually, the Electoral College chose Trump...

Reply to dawg day (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 19, 2018, 03:54 PM

Nov 2018

and the Democrats just let it slide as they did in 2000. At least Gore made a little effort to formally protest; the Supremes quashed that. Only sixteen years into the new century, and the Dems let the popular vote go for the second (actually third) time and too it lying down. The Republicans would have fixed the problem in 2000 had the votes gone the other way. At least a few states have tried to remedy things.

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