A new Morning Consult poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally, 51% to 45%.

Key takeaway: “Her 51% of support among likely voters, which is also at a record high, is driven largely by her best figures to date among Democrats, Biden 2020 voters, liberals, women, 18- to 34-year-olds and millennials.

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    There has only been two presidential elections where the popular vote was greater than the electoral vote.

    What exactly do you mean by this? When you say “the electoral vote”, you’re not referring to the number of electors in the electoral college, are you?

    Because if you are then that sounds silly lol, I’m probably misunderstanding you

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      2 months ago

      No, you’ve got it right. Most often the electoral vote follows the popular vote. There has only been twice in history when it didn’t. One was Trump in 2016. Clinton won the popular vote. For Trump to do that twice is a very low probability.

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        Ohhh you just mean “there’ve only been 2 times in history where the popular vote disagreed with the electoral vote.”

        When you said “only 2 times the popular vote was greater than the electoral vote” it sounded like you were comparing the size of the popular vote to the size of the electoral vote. Which would be silly, b/c the popular vote is always larger than the electoral vote lol

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        Most often the electoral vote follows the popular vote. There has only been twice in history when it didn’t.

        Wrong.