The nat vote winner has won the EC 55 out of 59

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Posted by sprinter on October 09, 2024 at 23:44:08

times. That's 93% of the time.

And before somebody points out that the national vote winner has lost the electoral college twice since 2000, the only other two times it happened were 1876 and 1880. And then it didn't happen again for 120 years...

So, yes, winning the national vote is exceptionally, super, duper, trooper, strongly correlated with winning the electoral college. And thus the notion national polls are meaningless is just totally stupid (or at least 93% stupid).

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And then, the 21st century happened... blindness 07:44:55 10/10/24 (6)
- Or the 19th century sprinter 09:48:46 10/10/24 (4)
  - Today’s world is much more likely for so many reasons. Fuzzy 16:17:54 10/10/24 (3)
    - both sides are accessing, using the same technology. Both sides sprinter 17:25:14 10/10/24 (2)
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- Well said* Fuzzy 08:48:21 10/10/24 (0)

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