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> majority vote
No they aren’t.
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Plurality
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Not even that. A plurality of electors, which was a minority of voters.
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Trump got 63 million votes and Clinton got 66 million votes.
GW Bush got 50.4 million votes, Gore got 50.9 million.
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Yes, a plurality of electoral votes. In Congress, it's a plurality of popular votes. The point is that elected officials were not voted by as much as 50-60% of the people who showed up to vote.
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No they aren’t.