claim: "if west virginia had voted for our democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with george bush for the last 7 years."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: nov 7, 2016 ... here's a wrinkle in the electoral math on tuesday: what if we told you that 270  electoral college votes wouldn't be enough to elect hillary clinton president? ...  the last time we had a faithless elector in a presidential campaign was more than  a decade ago -- in 2004 -- and it might have been a mistake.
evidence_2: may 31, 2016 ... polls show that many bernie sanders voters say they will withhold their support  for hillary clinton, and that's exactly how likely green party nominee jill stein  wants it. she is tailoring her rhetoric to woo their votes, and in the process is  rejecting claims that her campaign will be a “spoiler” candidacy, splitting ...
evidence_3: since the 1988 election, no candidate has managed to equal or surpass bush's  number of electoral votes won or popular vote percentage. this election marked  the third consecutive presidential victory for the republican party, and the first  and, to date, last time that a party had won more than two consecutive  presidential ...
evidence_4: apr 13, 2017 ... both of virginia's democratic senators, mark warner and former vice presidential  nominee tim kaine, have backed northam. as has every democrat in the state  legislature and every democratic congressman save connolly, who is remaining  neutral. in a normal election year, that would add up to a free ...
evidence_5: sep 4, 2014 ... democrats have carried the national popular vote in five of the last six elections,  and like republicans in the years of their dominance of the white house ..... on  the other hand, if you add three points to the gop share of the two-party vote,  suddenly the republican candidate has over 300 electoral votes:.