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  We don’t elect presidents by popular vote. The sooner democrats stop beating that dead horse and broaden their appeal back to the working class all over the country the better off we will all be. They’d rather play silly diversity games while packing their donors pockets and openly mocking everyone who lives in an area with less than 50,000 people.
context: Meanwhile Republican states are changing rules to be more like the electoral college, requiring a majority of counties or districts to pass ballot measures instead of a majority of people. >
  
  It's been a danger since 1824 when John Quincy Adams beat Andrew Jackson despite losing the popular vote.
  And especially recently. A republican president hasn't won the popular vote since 2004. >
  
  And Bush lost the popular vote in 2000, he won in 2004 because of the “rally round the flag effect” of 9/11 and the Iraq and Afghan wars. >
  
  They’ve won it once (2004) since 1988. That’s 7 losses in 8 elections. Yet a Republican has still managed to hold the Oval Office for 12 of those 32 years.