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  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.
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.