tinyVoltron to Showerthoughts • 12 hours agoReelecting Trump is the US equivalent of Brexitmessage-square45arrow-up1355arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1334arrow-down1message-squareReelecting Trump is the US equivalent of BrexittinyVoltron to Showerthoughts • 12 hours agomessage-square45file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•3 hours agoThe difference being half of Americans actually chose this. It was not a half passed unnoficial referendum.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 hours agoWasn’t it something more like 23% of the population voted for him?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•54 minutes agoI think the point is he won both the popular and electoral. In 2016 he lost the popular vote but won the electoral anyway.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•26 minutes agoExactly. In 2016 I gave yall the benefit of the doubt.
minus-squareEnkrodlinkfedilink1•21 minutes agoIf you count the election as the biggest possible poll, that let’s you infer which way the non-voters would have gone. And if you are a non-voter, that means you have declared the eventual outcome as your preferred outcome, since you did not vote otherwise.
The difference being half of Americans actually chose this. It was not a half passed unnoficial referendum.
Wasn’t it something more like 23% of the population voted for him?
I think the point is he won both the popular and electoral. In 2016 he lost the popular vote but won the electoral anyway.
Exactly. In 2016 I gave yall the benefit of the doubt.
If you count the election as the biggest possible poll, that let’s you infer which way the non-voters would have gone.
And if you are a non-voter, that means you have declared the eventual outcome as your preferred outcome, since you did not vote otherwise.