Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836-2016 – Michael Geruso, Dean Spears, Ishaana Talesara – NBER Working Paper No. 26247. Issued in September 2019. “Inversions—in which the popular vote winner loses the election—have occurred in 4 US Presidential elections. We show that rather than being statistical flukes, inversions have been ex ante likely since the 1800s.… Continue Reading