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Originally Posted by n david
No, he hasn't. That's a misconception. Not voting for Trump does not equal voting for Hillary. A vote must be cast for someone to actually be for someone. One could as easily (and incorrectly) claim that not voting for Hillary equals voting for Trump. Both are incorrect, unless you're trying to apply common core logic to the voting process, which still is incorrect.
No, he did not get in by one vote. W lost the popular vote by over 500,000 votes (533,895); however, due to how the process is actually played, he won five more electoral votes. Electoral votes are not popular votes.
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What i said, and I stand behind it, "you have just INDIRECTLY voted for her to be president."
As you can see, Bush became president by 1 vote, the vote of a Supreme court justice.
"The United States presidential election of 2000 was the 54th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. The contest was between Republican candidate George W. Bush, the incumbent governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush; Democratic candidate Al Gore, ... The Court's contentious 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore."