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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans and the popular vote. Let this sink in.
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Tim Miller
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Just occurred to me that first time voters in 2024 will not have been alive the last time Republicans won a popular vote.
11:25 AM · Mar 30, 2021
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Republicans and the popular vote. Let this sink in. (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Mar 2021
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AZSkiffyGeek
(11,006 posts)1. Forgot about 2004?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. 2024-18 equals 2006
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,006 posts)3. Lol, math hard... Thanks!
PatrickforB
(14,570 posts)4. I'm with you...2004 seems like yesterday!
But the math is right on...
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,006 posts)6. Yeah
2010 was 5 years ago.
2000 was 10 years ago
1990 was 10 years ago
1980 was 20 years ago
But 2019 was 50 years ago.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)5. Sobering thought.
Republicans are very good at gerrymandering and stealing elections, aren't they. There's not really a question there, that's why no ? after the sentence.
KS Toronado
(17,198 posts)7. And HR 1 kills their gerrymandering
reQugs will fight tooth & nail to keep it from becoming law, poor snowflakes.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)8. Lists that contain data like that are very disconcerting.
"Graduating seniors have never known a time without the Internet." Etc.
Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)11. The old Beloit College list
Unfortunately is no longer published.
certainot
(9,090 posts)9. and when rw radio croaks like limbaugh they willl be in real trouble
Jon King
(1,910 posts)10. Demographics are going to crush them...
the absolute terror of having to live in a country where the majority of voters actually rules is terrifying to them.