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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
that's wonderful, but the fact remains that the winner garnered a higher percentage of the vote than any other president has for 16 years.
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As I keep noting in various threads, that's because very few people voted third party in this election. The votes for Nader and Perot in the previous three elections were enough to bring the winner's percent below 50%. There was no significant 3rd party candidate in the election 16 years ago.
The only thing this shows is that the people who might have ordinarly placed a protest vote with a 3rd party in other years thought it was important to go Rep. or Dem. this year.