It’s happened before, but not often

[Tranquillus in Exile]

There have been just five presidential elections in US history where the result was in serious dispute.


1800. Thomas Jefferson received the same number of electoral college votes as Aaron Burr. It went to the House of Representatives, with congressmen voting by state, and Jefferson won.

1824. John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and William Crawford all failed to win more than half the electoral college. Again it was decided in the House – Adams was elected.

1876. Samuel Tilden (D) was one vote short of winning the electoral college, and there were many disputed votes. There was deadlock for months. In the end the leaders of the two parties struck a deal: Rutherford B. Hayes (R) could be president if he agreed to remove all federal troops from the South.

2000. You know about this one. Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million, but the electoral college hinged on Florida which was too close to call. It went up to the SCOTUS, who awarded Florida to George W. Bush by about 500 votes.

2020? A lot of people saw this dispute coming before a single ballot was cast. How did they know? Well, Trump is no Jefferson or even a Bush, but he is THE MAN WHO CAN NEVER LOSE (he lost the popular vote by around 4 million).

We’ll see.

 

[Nordberg]

There have been just five presidential elections in US history where the result was in serious dispute.


1800. Thomas Jefferson received the same number of electoral college votes as Aaron Burr. It went to the House of Representatives, with congressmen voting by state, and Jefferson won.

1824. John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and William Crawford all failed to win more than half the electoral college. Again it was decided in the House – Adams was elected.

1876. Samuel Tilden (D) was one vote short of winning the electoral college, and there were many disputed votes. There was deadlock for months. In the end the leaders of the two parties struck a deal: Rutherford B. Hayes (R) could be president if he agreed to remove all federal troops from the South.

2000. You know about this one. Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million, but the electoral college hinged on Florida which was too close to call. It went up to the SCOTUS, who awarded Florida to George W. Bush by about 500 votes.

2020? A lot of people saw this dispute coming before a single ballot was cast. How did they know? Well, Trump is no Jefferson or even a Bush, but he is THE MAN WHO CAN NEVER LOSE (he lost the popular vote by around 4 million).

We’ll see.

Going to reach 5 million. Who did not think Trump would protest the election? He said long ago he would. Trump is despicable.

 

[Jack]

None of us have ever seen anything like THIS in out Lifetimes. It's unprecedented. It's not Russia/Putin showing American 'voting' is a sham, it's Trump and the Republican Party.

There have been just five presidential elections in US history where the result was in serious dispute.


1800. Thomas Jefferson received the same number of electoral college votes as Aaron Burr. It went to the House of Representatives, with congressmen voting by state, and Jefferson won.

1824. John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and William Crawford all failed to win more than half the electoral college. Again it was decided in the House – Adams was elected.

1876. Samuel Tilden (D) was one vote short of winning the electoral college, and there were many disputed votes. There was deadlock for months. In the end the leaders of the two parties struck a deal: Rutherford B. Hayes (R) could be president if he agreed to remove all federal troops from the South.

2000. You know about this one. Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million, but the electoral college hinged on Florida which was too close to call. It went up to the SCOTUS, who awarded Florida to George W. Bush by about 500 votes.

2020? A lot of people saw this dispute coming before a single ballot was cast. How did they know? Well, Trump is no Jefferson or even a Bush, but he is THE MAN WHO CAN NEVER LOSE (he lost the popular vote by around 4 million).

We’ll see.

 

[Tacomaman]

There have been just five presidential elections in US history where the result was in serious dispute.


1800. Thomas Jefferson received the same number of electoral college votes as Aaron Burr. It went to the House of Representatives, with congressmen voting by state, and Jefferson won.

1824. John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and William Crawford all failed to win more than half the electoral college. Again it was decided in the House – Adams was elected.

1876. Samuel Tilden (D) was one vote short of winning the electoral college, and there were many disputed votes. There was deadlock for months. In the end the leaders of the two parties struck a deal: Rutherford B. Hayes (R) could be president if he agreed to remove all federal troops from the South.

2000. You know about this one. Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million, but the electoral college hinged on Florida which was too close to call. It went up to the SCOTUS, who awarded Florida to George W. Bush by about 500 votes.

2020? A lot of people saw this dispute coming before a single ballot was cast. How did they know? Well, Trump is no Jefferson or even a Bush, but he is THE MAN WHO CAN NEVER LOSE (he lost the popular vote by around 4 million).

We’ll see.

In other words, tRump has no chance of overturning this election.