• @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The electrical college will always look different ways because winner takes all voting. It’s all that matters at the end, but a 1.5% change in the voters would have flipoed most of the battleground states. It was closer than many make it out to be

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      79 days ago

      The fact that “closer” can be so diametrically opposed indicates a failure in the system.

      If it was close we’d have gotten, I don’t know, Mitt Romney or somebody.

      But the winner-take-all aspect means we get the dumbest, ugliest fascists ever. Just for a 1.5% difference.

      This is what a broken system looks like.

    • …60 goddamn percent of the country either voted for Trump, or didn’t vote at all, meaning they voted for Trump. Explain to me how she barely lost.

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        That’s not even true. Less than 50% of the people who voted, voted for Trump.

        He didn’t do much better than 2020 when he lost. The U.S. population increased by 2.5% from 2020 to 2024.

        Numerically with the population growing by the 2.5% we saw a 4.5% drop in voting in 2024.

        Reasons are all speculation.