78. "Feels worth being precise about, no?" In response to In response to 77
The 1876 election is the only one where a candidate won a majority of the vote and didn't win the electoral college and the results were genuinely transformative (bad transformative, to be clear) for our country in concrete political ways.
Given the frequency of general election victories and electoral college losses in this century, the difference between majority and plurality doesn't seem like just semantics to me. Grousing about the electoral college has been growing since Bush/Gore, and Clinton taking 50+ percent in 2016 could have given that movement real traction. It's hardly certain, obviously, but the compromise of 1876 was - again - actual concrete political change because of that dissonance. Instead, we just get more grousing.
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