In the year 2000, George W Bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency

and lose the popular vote.

In 2016, Donald Trump became the second.

Now what made both of those victories even possible

at the expense of the popular vote was the Electoral College.

But in 2000, it wasn't just the Electoral College. It was also the Supreme Court.

The 2000 election came down to the state of Florida.

The margin between Al Gore and George Bush was 537 votes, a number that remained staggering to this day.

And even though Al Gore had won the popular vote by half a million votes,

whether those 533700 votes in Florida did or did not get counted

would decide the race.

And after a flurry of legal challenges and appeals, that decision ended up in the hands of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court hasn't been asked to decide the election, but their decision just might do just that here comes our runner. Here comes our runner Matt

He reversed the decision's been reversed the US Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Florida Supreme Court.

Here we go.

Several of the justices take the time to write separately.

There's a dissent from Justice Breyer.

There's a separate dissent from Justice Ginsburg.

There's a separate dissent from Justice Souter, so it would appear that

the 5-4 vote that we have seen all along is holding.

It does appear as I look through here to be a 5-4 opinion.

The entire reason we as a country ended up electing George W Bush in the very first place

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