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...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...
...RODNEY HARRISON Chargers safety gets $40K fine for helmet bang. They need men like...
...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...
Neither of us had any problem getting our pictures to appear. Antje's son Harrison was so impressed that he would rush into her bedroom at 6 a.m. each day just to stare at his digital likeness onscreen, while I treated myself to mid-workday forays in Central Park to snap the golden fall leaves...
...house, and she got a peek at my new window office. She sent me pictures of Harrison at the pumpkin patch, while I sent snaps of my main squeeze. We had such fun, it hardly felt like work. But since I'm the only one getting paid for this assignment, I think I owe her a big box of chocolates--which to us may be worth a thousand digital pictures...