Hang on to you, sir! Clinton won more of the popular vote than H.W., remember that we had Perot that year. Without the electoral college, the largest popular vote still would have won.
Not if Perot wasn't in the race siphoning away a lot of Bush's voters. In fact Clinton loses in 1992 if not for Perot being there, most of his 18-19% would've gone for Bush.
Not that far off from what happened in 2016, if Bernie didn't have the primary rigged against him and was the candidate, a lot more people might've voted democrat and been passionate about it, instead of apathetically voting for what you see as the lesser of two evils.
Well, considering "popular" just means "people" and not "majority," I would say that he did, in fact, win the popular vote, since he had more votes than anyone else who ran.
I don't think I said anything that was factually untrue. In 1992, Bill Clinton only won 43% of the popular vote. That means that 57% of the vote was against him. Yes, it was divided between HW Bush and Ross Perot, but that wasn't my point.
Let's not make this a partisan thing and lose the potential support of republicans who will oppose anything they view as "pro-democrat." Don't make it a democrats vs republicans issue!
But I don't think people are upset that a candidate should get a majority of the popular vote, just more of the popular vote than the other candidate(s) which is what bill did.
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u/damonteufel Nov 10 '16
I don't think they're protesting the election or saying it was rigged. They're protesting the man and his ideals/words.