election reminders

 

Bush vs. Gore - 2000

Bush won 271 electoral votes (270 required to win) but lost the popular vote by 543,895 votes AND after a recount Bush won Florida, the deciding state, by only 537 votes after a recount, and Gore accepted the split decision of the Supreme Court a little more than a month after that historically close election.

 

Trump vs. Clinton – 2010

Trump won 304 electoral votes but lost the popular vote by 2,868,686 votes and Clinton accepted the loss the day after the election.

 

Biden vs. Trump – 2020

Biden won 306 electoral votes and won the popular vote by 7,052,770 votes and yet months after the election and after an insurrection aimed at disrupting the final approval of the votes and after the inauguration of Biden, Trump still maintains that he really won.

 

In this century, thousands of Americans have voted twice for a person who won the popular vote but was not elected. Only once has a Presidential candidate in this century challenged the final vote count and decision, and that candidate persists in doing so a half year after the election. The example set by Al Gore who lost only by 537 votes in a contested election is lost in misinformation, bias and hubris.

Is this the land of the free and home of the brave or the land of greed and the home of hatred? Lost are the words of that lady of liberty standing proudly in Upper New York Bay: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" How long must we wait “for the American Eagle to really spread its wings and straighten up and fly right?”