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...been hearing a lot about how Gore won the popular vote but could lose the electoral vote. Has a president ever been elected with the majority of the electoral votes and but without the majority of the popular vote? A:Yes. Most recently in 1888, when Grover Cleveland, who won 5,540,050 popular votes, lost to Benjamin Harrison, who pulled down 5,444,337 popular vote. Harrison took 233 electoral votes to Cleveland's 168. (There were fewer electors back then...
...your piece on a possible Electoral College vote tie [NATION, Oct. 23], you noted it is possible to win the electoral vote while losing the popular vote and that "it happened in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland," even though Cleveland got 90,000 more popular votes. In case anyone has forgotten, it also occurred in 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden despite Tilden's slight majority of popular votes. Ultimately, the choice of Hayes as President was made by a committee vote along strict party lines; nevertheless, Hayes' election stands as a second example...
...first time the electoral college directly denied the presidency to the winner of the popular vote was in 1888. Grover Cleveland, running for re-election, beat Benjamin Harrison by 91,000 in the popular vote but lost, 233 to 168, in the electoral college. It was a confusing election. Fraud tainted both results. Yet nearly 80 percent of eligible voters had gone to the polls, and though the popular-vote winner lost the presidency, no one in 1888 seems to have questioned the legitimacy of the result...
...just for winning the primaries. If conservatives came to think Bush was an ardent tax cutter, they would be willing to let him roam much closer to the center on just about everything else to win the heart of independents. "He moved the party on immigration and education," says Grover Norquist, godfather of all tax cutters, "but no Republican could have abandoned tax cuts and won the primary, or the general...
...cover of 'NSync's "God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You" that frustrate jazz fans; all the evidence points toward a talented musician afraid to display any individuality. And, ultimately, it is this lack of individuality which mars Unconditional. Whalum wears each smooth-jazz hat-Grover Washington, Kenny G, David Sanborn-well in their respective turn. However, you can't help but feel that the real Kirk Whalum has yet to be heard. B- -Malik...