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Article: Another test for Electoral College; In a close race, it's possible for a candidate to win the popular vote and lose the election.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 30, 2000
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This could be the year Electoral College haters have been waiting for for more than a century - the year one candidate wins the popular vote but the other wins the electoral vote and becomes president.
The odds are against it. It hasn't happened since 1888. But the possibility exists every four years and becomes much greater in years such as this, when the popular vote seems very close. Analysts have come up with several scenarios under which it could happen this year, and all agree that it would an embarrassment at best, a constitutional crisis at worst.
"Obviously, it would undermine a president who came in second in the popular vote," said George ...