• @TempermentalAnomaly
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    11 month ago

    I wouldn’t. Popular vote doesn’t have a meaningful role in determining the presidency.

    • @LovableSidekick
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      1 month ago

      Popular vote doesn’t have a meaningful role in determining the presidency, but all states except Maine and Nebraska allocate their electoral votes according to it. Well alrighty then, you have yourself a good day!

      • @TempermentalAnomaly
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        11 month ago

        81 million Democrats voted in 2020, but only 71 million this year. Trump won by 3.5 million.

        This is the national popular vote.

        When states allocate their electoral votes, it’s based upon the state’s popular vote. So if a candidate gets the most votes in California. If only one person votes for that candidate in California, the candidate gets all the electoral votes in California. If everyone votes in Alaska, the winning candidate only gets Alaska’s electoral votes.

        The national popular vote isn’t meaningful in determining the president. The only determinant is the electoral college.

        • @LovableSidekick
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          11 month ago

          Sure, the national popular vote total doesn’t determine the presidency, but it’s also not “meaningless”. The popular vote winner has won the presidency all but 5x in US history.

          • @TempermentalAnomaly
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            11 month ago

            I feel like we’ve strayed very far from the original statement.

            I’m just gonna keep hammering this in for a while. 81 million Democrats voted in 2020, but only 71 million this year. Trump won by 3.5 million. But hey, at least all you righteous little angels aren’t “complicit in genocide”, right? Think about that while you polish your halos. YOU did this.

            In our electoral college system the total national vote isn’t the cause of a president getting elected. Many of the people who didn’t turn out were in states that were already considered Democrat strongholds such as New Jersey. Only seven states mattered. They were close enough that the polls weren’t able to tell who was in the lead. Both Republicans and Democrats spent a lot of money on spreading their message and getting out the vote. These seven states had record or near record turn out.

            In light of all of this, what is your argument?

            • @LovableSidekick
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              11 month ago

              In simple terms, if those 10 million Democrats had voted for Kamala there’s a good chance she would have won. It would depend on where those people live, but even if you simplemindedly divide 10 million by 50 you average 200k votes in every state. This is far more than Trump’s lead in any of the swing states, and she only would have had to win a few of them.

              • @TempermentalAnomaly
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                11 month ago

                I think ten minutes of your time would yield a less simpleminded result.

                • @LovableSidekick
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                  11 month ago

                  I’m open to converse about it with anyone who offers an actual conversation.

                  • @TempermentalAnomaly
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                    11 month ago

                    I’m not following. The only people here are you and me.

                    Like I’ve mantained, I don’t think the popular vote is important to electoral college. I also think this ten million voter deficit is an allusion to not enough Democrats came out. And if they did, Harris would have won. This assume many things. Worst of all is that the Democrats are owed votes. Doing the actual exercise will only move people towards being more specific about which voter group they blame for the loss. This is wrong.

                    But if I were to investigate more closely, I’d look at votes for Dems and Republicans in 2020 and 2024 in swing states and compare. If that picture is confusing, I’d expand it to states where turnout was down from 2020 by a significant amount. Significant would be a greater percentage drop in that state from 2020 to 2024 compared to the national percentage drop.