The Bush–Cheney ticket won the 2000 presidential election with 271 electoral votes but with only 47.9% of the popular vote, less than their opposition ticket, Gore–Lieberman, which received 48.3%.
Near the same odds with the Trump election. Odd isn't it, that the nation is neatly divided almost 50:50? If you look at the media coverage of elections though you see an inordinate push in one direction or another, it's the media that swings the elections, and no, it's Not because they are Leftists, that's another lie. Those in control of the process actively work to keep the nation divided by politics, race, gender, birth control, immigration issues. It's the age old "Divide and Conquer" method.
This next election though is clearly a republican win unless Trump is jailed, but what is republican? Pro war, pro pharma, pro corporate, just like the other party. Two sides of the same coin and ultimately those in power couldn't care less which side wins.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" Thomas JeffersonI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
I'd say we're well on the way.