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Will Kamala Harris lose the popular vote?

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Posted By: Moritz55, 11/4/2024 5:21:58 PM

Kamala Harris isn’t just on track to lose the election; she could lose the popular vote too. Two self-reinforcing voter trends are conspiring against Harris. One is that Republican mail-in ballots could further strengthen the Trump surge that has closed the last two presidential elections, allowing him to outperform his polling. The other is that, as it becomes increasingly clear Harris can’t win, her untested supporters don’t turn out to vote. Together, these trends could make reality what seemed unthinkable just weeks ago. No Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote since 2004.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 11/4/2024 5:39:57 PM (No. 1825893)
Wasting time and bandwidth on the national popular vote is just stupid. It plays absolutely no part in our election process. NONE. Give this irrelevant and artificial thing a rest.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Lucky5 11/4/2024 5:46:13 PM (No. 1825896)
It does mean the press would have to stop screaming about the "popular" vote for once.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 11/4/2024 5:56:47 PM (No. 1825901)
The main reason to win the popular vote is it would be one less argument the Democrats have that Trump doesn’t have a mandate. Mind you, he could win in 48 states and popular vote, the Republicans could have 61 senators, and 2/3 of the house and they’d claim Trump didn’t have a mandate. But it’d just be another lie nailing shut the coffin of the old media.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: anniebc 11/4/2024 5:57:33 PM (No. 1825904)
I don't believe hitlery won the popular vote.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: crashnburn 11/4/2024 6:51:31 PM (No. 1825932)
Also, there is a pact between 17 blue states that says their electors will vote for the candidate that wins the popular vote, no matter what that candidate did in each of those states. Of course, that hasn't been tested in court. We might see some exploding DemonRat heads if PDJT wins the popular vote.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mifla 11/5/2024 4:41:17 AM (No. 1826074)
I hope so. It would shut up the Dems demanding that the electoral college be eliminated.
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