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Kaboom ,

Cynthia McKinney lost in 2008.

Hux ,

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).

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_United_States_presidenti…

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

Shiggles ,

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 ,

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

ChihuahuaOfDoom ,

45 and 1 white woman

jeffw OP , (edited )
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facepalm thanks, fixed the titled

Edit: I’m still wrong. But this was a shower thought. There’s a reason this community isn’t called “well thought out comments”

Cuberoot , (edited )

Don’t correct that. He’s wrong. It’s way more than 46, most multi-term presidents defeated several different contenders.

Edit: I got 63 white men and 1 white woman, not counting pre 12th amendment elections, not counting minor candidates who didn’t win any states electors. There’s a lot more if you include minor candidates, but then one of them would be Cynthia McKinney who is a black woman.

snooggums ,
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Also a lot of people ran in the general election that weren’t members of the two major parties.

Lost_My_Mind ,

And I raaaan. I ran so far awaaaay.

I just ran.

I ran all night and daaaay!!!

…I couldn’t get away.

Lost_My_Mind ,

I voted for Aunt Jemima in 1978, after I was born at age 6 without a face in 1983.

Nomecks ,

Statistically it probably wasn’t 45 men by today’s definition.

Lost_My_Mind ,

…I think I know what you’re getting at, but if I’m right, that’s pretty racist.

bamboo ,

what are you talking about? racist? I think they’re saying that since ~2% of the population identifies as trans and more are probably eggs, we likely had one trans president before, but they weren’t out to the public, or perhaps even themselves.

Lost_My_Mind ,

I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn’t have added up to “1”.

Which is why I said thats pretty racist.

Amir ,
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But he said by today’s definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past

Nomecks ,

Bingo.

CrimeDad ,

That’s right.

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