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NYC Liberal

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10. Only 2 hadn't by then:

Reply to dsc (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 02:30 PM

Dec 2012

http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/GENERAL/pe1828.html

But between that, the restrictions on who could vote, and the debatable accuracy of the counts...I wouldn't put too much stock in the "popular vote" in those early elections.

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