Thread by @TheValuesVoter

In the last 30 years, there have been 8 US Presidential Elections.

The Democrats won 5 of them (and yet, somehow, our guns have not been taken away. The GOP promised they would be).

The Republicans won 3 of them. And in 2 of those 3, the Democratic candidate got more votes.

2020 - Biden got 7.05 million votes more than Trump.

2016 - Clinton got 2.87 million votes more than Trump but lost the election.

2012 - Obama got 4.98 million votes more than Romney.

2008 - Obama got 9.55 million votes more than McCain.

2004 - Bush got 3.01 million votes more than Kerry.

2000 - Gore got 0.54 million votes more than Bush but lost the election.

1996 - Clinton got 8.20 million votes more than Dole.

1992 - Clinton got 5.81 million votes more than Bush.

When you combine all the votes for the Democratic and Republican Presidential nominees over the last 30 years, the Democratic nominees got a combined 35.99 MILLION votes more than the Republican nominees.

Do the math. Check yourself.

Even though Republicans won 3 of the last 8 US Presidential elections, including 2 in which the Democratic nominee got more votes (Gore in 2000 and Clinton in 2016), if you average it out, the Democrats got an average of 4.50 million more votes each election.

If you’re wondering why Republicans seem to be going extra crazy in their efforts to try to stop people from voting, all you have to do is to look at the numbers.

The @GOP has given up on trying to win the hearts of the majority of the American electorate.

And, as it is currently formulated, the GOP generally does not win the popular vote. They’ve only done it once in the last 30 years - before the average American was old enough to vote.

Our Constitution says that elections are decided by the Electoral College.

And in all but 5 of our Presidential elections, the winner of the Electoral vote and the winner of the Popular vote has been the same person.

But 2 of those 5 happened in just the last 21 years.

Losing the popular vote in 7 out of the last 8 elections, even while managing to scrape out wins in 3 of the 8 elections in the electoral college, is not a fluke. It’s a pattern.

Some people out there have a hard time believing that Biden beat Trump by seven million votes.

Here’s the thing. In the last 30 years, that’s not even the highest vote margin by which the Democratic Presidential candidate beat the Republican. It’s the third highest.

https://twitter.com/thevaluesvoter/status/1365736304110100494

Again, just looking at math and not emotion, in the average Presidential Election over the past 30 years, the Democratic Presidential Candidate has won the popular vote by 4.5 million votes.

And Democrats won the Electoral College since 1990 by an average of 312-225.

There have been four US Presidential elections in the past 30 years in which the winner won the electoral college by a margin of more than 100 electoral votes. All of these were won by Democrats (1992, 1996, 2008 and 2012).

And there have been four US Presidential elections in the last 30 years in which the electoral margin was 100 electoral votes or less. Republicans won three of these four elections.

Including one election in which the electoral margin was 5 votes (2000) and 35 votes (2004).