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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kinda depends on how you are measuring it.

It sounds like you are just going by elected presidents, but quite a few were multiple-term presidents, and those presidents had multiple elections with different opponents.

And sometimes, a losing opponent would go on to win a later election.

Also, no one ran against George Washington, twice.

Out of 59 elections (if you include Washington), I think there have been 49 white guys and one white lady who have lost a US Presidential election at least once (and may or may not have gone on to be President in a later election).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin

I am exactly as fun at parties as you would imagine.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s also technically a lot more if you remember that we do in fact have several marginalized parties running in every general election.

[–] grue 13 points 6 months ago

And multiple candidates per party who lose during the primary stage.