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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Taking the data from here and throwing it in a spreadsheet, Trump got more votes than everyone else combined, including the Libertarian party, RFK Jr, and Write-ins.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looking at that chart, she would have won in Wisconsin and gotten their ten electoral votes.

What does it look like for the rest of the states?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Across the country, it was Trump: 71,825,780 Everyone else: 69,303,000

It says at the top of the page it was last updated a day ago, but I kind of doubt the numbers will change too dramatically.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

67m for Harris to 72m (rounded up) on the BBC; it was really not close eh.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Biden got 81.2 million.

How the fuck are people not voting. After all that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

How the fuck are people not voting.

Massive voter suppression, and propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The other person was making the point that you can't do it by total popular vote, you have to do it by state and then look at their electoral college votes.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But the electoral college is dumb and pointless. This is the first time a Republican won the popular vote since 2004, or since 1988 if you don't want to count an incumbent victory. That alone should tell you plenty about the state of the country right now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

But the electoral college is dumb and pointless

And its also how a president is elected in the United States, or 2016 would have gone a bit differently.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Your comment is dumb and pointless, yet here it is.

See how far your logic goes?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's dumb and pointless, but it's literally the way a president is elected today. We have had many instances of people being elected president who didn't win the popular vote. So if you want to try to figure out if third party candidates caused Trump to get elected, you have to look at it state by state.

[–] Mouselemming -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But how do you count "didn't vote"? And what about "voted on other parts but not for President because genocide or whatever"? That second group might be countable, but the first is like proving a negative

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You probably look at how many citizens there are, and look at how many voted. Then do some magic math.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

But how do you count “didn’t vote”?

I didn't, that's voter turnout and probably won't be fully available till all the votes are counted. If you're impatient though, here's the washington post comparing 2024 voter turnout to 2020.