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Popular Vote
Now that this election is over, we can now say that between 1992 and 2012, the republicans have only won the popular vote once, in the presidential elections.
1992=Lost by 6 million votes
1996=Lost by 8.5 million votes
2000=Lost by 550,000 votes
2008=Lost by 9 million votes
2012=Lost by at least 3 million votes
Only in 2004 did they win the popular vote and that was by 3 million.
I think this is an important thing we need to wonder about. What does it mean for the republicans if in 6 elections, they lost the popular vote 5 times. Does that mean their party is slowly dying?
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Maximize the white vote, minimize the non-white vote. 
