Here’s an intersting bit of history: It turns out that no president who has lost the popular vote has ever been elected to a second term.
Another 100 years go by. The Supreme Court says stop counting the votes in Florida, and George W. Bush becomes the 43rd president on the strength of a 537-vote margin in that funky election.Four years later, the Twin Towers are gone, Saddam Hussein is in jail, Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Bush seeks to persuade the American people to do what they have never done before: re-elect a president who lost the popular vote.
Here’s hoping history repeats itself.
From The American Prospect.
