• Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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      The majority did not vote for this. The majority of voters didn’t even vote for this. He only won a plurality (<50%)

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        He got the support of all the people who voted for him and all the people who didn’t vote against him.

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          Lucky the USA allows everyone to vote no matter what; doesn’t schedule it for a standard workday, meaning nobody has to choose between feeding their kids and voting; plans out enough polling stations so that people don’t have to wait for hours without access to food, water, or seating; doesn’t surprise deregister voters with little notice; and sends out absentee ballots reliably with sufficient time to return them…

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            Georgia had both mail-in absentee voting and, especially, 2 weeks of early voting including on weekends. In most places the early voting lines weren’t terribly long. On election day most places were short.

            Most people still didn’t vote.

            Some people couldn’t vote. Millions of assholes just didn’t bother and are partly to blame.

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        No vote. No opinion.

        He got the majority of votes. He got the majority of the electoral.

        The majority of participating voters wanted this.

        Just because you guys cannot fathom how anyone would want this doesn’t mean this is the same panic inducing situation for them. The majority of politically active people in the United States of America wanted this to happen as evidence of the election we just held.

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          No. He got a plurality of the votes. Not a majority.

          The majority of participating voters voted against him.

          How many times do you need that repeated to understand?

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              Outdated data. The votes were not done being counted on November 10th. Trump got 49.8% to Harris’ 48.3%

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                Ah. Fair enough. Last time I had seen it it was more than 50% still. Well then by a technicality not a majority then. I do love a technically correct statement so I’ll give you that one.

                Still. More people voted for this than didn’t vote for this.

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                  Still. More people voted for this than didn’t vote for this.

                  I don’t want to pile on, but if less than 50% voted for this, then more than 50% voted against it. The people voting against it didn’t vote for the same thing, but they did vote against this.

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                  Well if you love technicalities you should’ve realized that people who didn’t vote at all for any reason also didn’t vote for this. Technically.

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                    I’m not playing that game. Only people who voted get a say. Even if you give Kamala ALL the third party votes (which arguably the RFK votes would probably go to Trump) she still loses the popular vote and the election.