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Daily notes and timed freewrites but mostly my blog
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At my Sister's Wedding
January 30, 2025 at 8:06pm
January 30, 2025 at 8:06pm
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My brother is an analytical thinker. Every so often, he will write down some of the thoughts that crowd his brain. This that follows is some research and analysis regarding the history of all the presidential elections since his birth. I'm sure not all of this is his own words, but what is presented here is so very much my brother. I will not correct spelling or grammar as I'm representing this as His work as presented last December.

Byron Keith Long 12/10/24 12:29 pm

I was born in the summer of 1961, less than ten months after one of the closest presidential elections in our country's history. Vice president Dick Nixon had gone up against Massachusetts senator Jack Kennedy and lost with a vote count difference of only 112,827. Kennedy had a significant lead in the electoral college and this is probably why there was no recount challenge put forward. Eight years later, in 1968, third party candidate, Alabama governor George Wallace had a profound effect on the outcome of that race where Nixon beat out vice president Hubert Humphrey by less then 500,000 votes. Just over thirty years later, vice president Al Gore won the popular vote but lost to Texas governor George W. Bush in a race that was settled with a 5-4 decision by the United States Supreme Court.

In 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump lost the popular vote by receiving over nine million votes less then his competitors in each of those two races. In 2024 he cut his deficit to just over a quarter million votes. He won the electoral college in 2016 and 2024 but had vowed to not accept the results in 2016 if he happened to loose. In 2020 he lost the electoral vote and to this very day has never conceded to the actual winner Joe Biden.

Now, when you tabulate all the votes cast for the two major party candidates, Democrat and Republican, for the past 27 elections between 1960 and 2024, you come up with a total of 1,706,044,331. That is 853,312,613 for Democrats and 852,731,718 for the Republicans. That is 50.017% to 49.983%, which shows that this nation is essentially split right down the middle. And when you devide the totals by 27, the average difference is well below that 1960 election at a mere 21,500 votes.

The Electoral College has been kind to the Republican party. In the past nine election (32 years) that party has won four of the races and yet only won the popular vote twice, George W Bush in 2004 and Trump twenty years later. In a nation that wants to call itself a democracy, the concept of the electoral college has ceased to make any sense at all.


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