Please tell me a out Samuel J Tilden, the only person to win a majority popular vote but lost the election?

Not the only person to win a majority popular vote

Hello.

Women aren't people, Hills.

Hayes didn't die in office.

Excuse me?!

"Tilden winning 4,288,546 votes and Hayes winning 4,034,311. Tilden was, and remains, the only candidate in American history who lost a presidential election despite receiving a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote."

What?

OP is correct at R5. Tilden won 50.9 percent of the popular vote.

You are all missing the difference between MAJORITY and PLURALITY

Thank you R7

Sorry, I mistook Hayes with Garfueld, who was killed in office

And we still don't care, R8.

Does anybody really believe Gary Johnson got 4.4 million votes? I suspect the libertarian vote since 2000 has been faked to avoid showing that Gore and Clinton received a majority of popular votes.

[quote] Sorry, I mistook Hayes with Garfueld, who was killed in office

What was the outcome of the concession to republicans?

Hayes was kind of hot when young.

[quote] Hayes was kind of hot when young.

Hayes and Drew Brees.

R1 doesn't know the difference between a majority and a plurality, as the estimable R4 pointed out. But R4 left out the appropriate

Oh, dear.

R16 are you sure you mean R4?

OP keeps blathering on about something that has no significance. That two recent candidates got a large plurality and more than 48% of the official vote means nothing to this deranged psychopath.

It would probably chap his ass that Jefferson Davis only got 47,000 votes for president of the Confederacy

Dick Gregory said millions of votes were accidentally flipped for him when he ran against Nixon.

The Tilden Hayes election was actually very significant. To get a deal to elect Hayes, troops were pulled out of the South and Reconstruction ended. Segregation and Jim Crow took over.

Don't be silly.

Al Gore and Hillary Clinton both won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

R22, read the OP and R5.

OP - Tilden, a Democrat, negotiated the withdrawal of Union occupation forces from the South in return for giving up the Presidency. Rutherford Hayes was inaugurated President. It was a key event in American History.

After this, the South reversed all civil rights granted to African-Americans by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, implemented segregation (Jim Crow), and voted solidly Democratic for next 100 years. Then, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which along with other civil rights legislation, overturned Jim Crow and made segregation illegal. At this point the South became Republican.

I know the election seems to be about Trump and it is to a huge extent. But, it appears that concurrently, the American electoral landscape is appears ready to switch again. The South is becoming more liberal while the Northern Midwest is turning conservative. That is what the underlying dynamic behind all the sound and fury of the last four years has been all about.

Trump, Bernie, Hillary, Putin, NATO, China, Cyber-attacks, etc., are just characters or plot points in a play masking a huge demographic/geographic shift representing immense power and wealth.

Thank you R21 and R23 for your informative replies

Not informative. The south is not becoming more liberal and the north not more conservative.