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Originally posted by Verbal
Gore won the pop vote ... unfortunately that doesn't mean anything.
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By a 1.5% margin, it means a helluva lot. Some other elections in the past were won by that slim of a margin in % of vote, but the electoral votes were a blow out victory:
1968 election:
Richard Milhous
NIXON Pop. Vote: 31,710,470 (43.4%)
Electoral Votes: 301
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Hubert Horatio Pop. Vote: 30,898,055 (42.3%)
HUMPHREY Electoral Votes: 191