# How Bush Won the Popular Vote

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bush-won-the-popular-vote/285940>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 21, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bush-won-the-popular-vote/285940 "2005-01-21T17:38:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![annaplurabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@annaplurabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annaplurabelle)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bush-won-the-popular-vote/285940/81 "2005-01-25T02:58:00Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. In a nutshell.

Wow. My first husband said the exact same thing. I think I need to lie down now.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bush-won-the-popular-vote/285940/82 "2005-01-25T03:17:21Z")

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> [@annaplurabelle](#):
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> Wow. My first husband said the exact same thing. I think I need to lie down now.

Yeah, I get a lot of that. That, and restraining orders.

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**Author:** ![annaplurabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@annaplurabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annaplurabelle)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bush-won-the-popular-vote/285940/83 "2005-01-25T04:49:24Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Yeah, I get a lot of that. That, and restraining orders.

So did my ex.

But seriously, what about the _future_? (Yeah, he hated that word too - and yet he married me… 😉 )

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