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republicans will tell you they are the voice of the American people and never answer why they only won the popular vote twice in the last 5 elections they won
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Anonymous 2w

the answer is that when they say ‘the American people’ they’re referring to the subset they believe deserve a voice

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Anonymous 2w

although honestly bush v gore should have gone the other way and if it did it would be 3/5 since the 5th would be 1988 dems, meanwhile, at 0/5 times winning the election but losing the popular vote in their last 5 victories

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

god imagine if we had gotten gore

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

the 9/11 nationalism train brings gore into a second term instead of bush…

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

anyway abolish the electoral college.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

yeah but like we might actually have deeply installed climate policy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

oh no I meant the second gore term would be good. also fuck yeah

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

based i thought you meant gore still would’ve done the war on terror and lowk he might have but at least we could have had climate policy

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