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Is there any legal concept of "nationwide popular vote"? The media reports it, but isn't it something they decided to make up on their own?

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• talmand 14y ago
  In terms of electing the President of the United States, the national popular vote means nothing. I want to say there were some legal arguments made back during the Gore/Bush fiasco that was something along those lines, "will of the people" and all that. But it's just a number that people like to toss out to create drama, I believe it gained a good amount of steam recently because of Gore. The reason I say to create drama is because the Electoral College and the popular vote almost always agree anyway. Three times did it disagree and now I'm seeing that there were two Electoral College ties, where the House chose the winner. The system, for the most part works just fine, its just some people make arguments against it in a way that suggests they don't feel it leans in their favor quite enough.
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