Why Can’t Republicans Win the Popular Vote?
Whether or not the party can still win elections, it hasn’t figured out how to govern.
Not much to celebrate.
Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty
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We don’t have a final result in the presidential election as I write, but what is certain is that Joe Biden won a majority of the votes. He has already cleared Hillary Clinton’s plurality both in absolute votes and in the share of the two-candidate vote. And with plenty of California ballots left to count it’s certain that his lead will increase. Nate Silver estimated on Wednesday that Biden will eventually win by about 7 million votes and about 4.3 percentage points. If that’s true, it wasn’t a particularly close election.