It has been a dream start to Kamala Harris’s bid for the White House.
The party’s convention was a raging success, crowds are packing into her campaign rallies and the Democratic presidential nominee is now pulling ahead of Donald Trump in several national opinion polls.
With two months until the election, her supporters are daring to dream big.
“She’s certainly going to win the popular vote by millions of votes,” two-time presidential candidate Bernie Sanders declared this week on ABC America.
But he was less confident about the bigger picture, only going as far as saying he felt Harris has a “very good chance” of winning the election.
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Getting more votes — even millions more than your opponent — isn’t a guarantee of electoral success in the US.
Just ask Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
They both won the popular vote: Gore by 500,000 in 2000 and Clinton by nearly 3 million in 2016. But they both lost the election.
As a candidate, no matter how well you do in the national political beauty contest, if you don’t win the electoral college, you’re in for an exceedingly disappointing election night.
“No other democracy chooses their presidents this way and most just go on a straight