Keep hearing that this will be the closest race in American History. Were there ever close races where the media said the same thing? (lemmy.world)

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

In recent history, the Bush/Gore election in 2000 was polled to be close, and ended up being decided by the Supreme Court.

These are the top 5 closest elections in US history:

https://www.britannica.com/list/5-remarkably-close-us-presidential-elections

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The 2000 election is worth digging into because it was straight up stolen. Bush would have lost had Florida not forced counties to stop tallying votes early (and having a law that says NO votes will count unless they ALL were tallied).

The story is scummy for even GOP standards.

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