The deep knowledge that powers the Washington Post’s political commentary —
Bill Clinton and Al Gore both relied on it in winning the Democrats’ only popular-vote majorities of the past two decades.
Of course, Bill Clinton did not get a majority popular vote in either of his Presidential election. If journalists don’t read about their supposed area of expertise carefully, and bring their own prejudices to it, why shouldn’t the readers?
— Via Brothers Judd
Neither did Al Gore (all the absentee ballots weren’t counted, especially in pre-governator California).