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> majority vote No they aren’t.
by evan_ 7y ago
> majority vote
No they aren’t.
- danso 7y agoPlurality
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoNot even that. A plurality of electors, which was a minority of voters.
- evan_ 7y agoTrump got 63 million votes and Clinton got 66 million votes. GW Bush got 50.4 million votes, Gore got 50.9 million.
- danso 7y agoYes, a plurality of electoral votes. In Congress, it's a plurality of popular votes. The point is that elected officials were not voted by as much as 50-60% of the people who showed up to vote.