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edhopper

(33,590 posts) Mon Nov 7, 2016, 10:11 PM Nov 2016

Al Gore won the popular vote

That's gonna keep me up tonight.

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Al Gore won the popular vote (Original Post) edhopper Nov 2016 OP

PTSD, for sure Siwsan Nov 2016 #1

Al Gore BARELY won the popular vote, tho... Drunken Irishman Nov 2016 #2

Siwsan

(26,270 posts)

1. PTSD, for sure

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Mon Nov 7, 2016, 10:13 PM

Nov 2016

I've been fighting that fear, for a while, now.

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)

2. Al Gore BARELY won the popular vote, tho...

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Mon Nov 7, 2016, 10:19 PM

Nov 2016

He won it by 500,000 votes - or less than an entire percentage point. Had he won it by the margins Hillary is winning in the polls, he would've carried NH and FL and would've been elected president, IMO.

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