On 08-20-96, GRANT CUNNINGHAM said to NOLAN PENNEY:
GC>Nolan Penney wrote about "Re: things".
GC>Here's what GRANT CUNNINGHAM thinks:
ML> JP>> As for someone winning the popular vote but losing the election,
ML> JP>> just  off the top of my head, I think the Nixon-Kennedy race was
ML> JP>> the last  time it happened.
ML>>
ML>> It has never happened.  Kennedy did win the popular vote as I
ML>> recall.   Not by much, but he won.
NP> Max!  Come on.  Get a clue!  It's happened a fair number of times
NP> actually.
GC>Chapter and verse, Nolan: who and when.  Since you say "a fair number of
GC>times", do you mean 6??  1 Put up or...
Is *maybe* three a "fair number" of times?  If no candidate gets a majority 
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the Electoral College, the Congress elects the president, two presidents have
been elected that way, Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and John Quincy Adams in 
824,
I don't know if either won the popular vote so I said "maybe" above.  I do
know that in 1888 Grover Cleveland won the popular vote by a small margin but
Benjamin Harrison was elected by the Electoral College and that's the ONLY
time it's happened in the Electoral College, the other times the Congress 
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the choice.
The above was pretty easy to look up and will free your time up for arguing
about other things! 
Take care,
David R. Norton 
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