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> So at best he seems to have gotten around 30% of the voters to vote for him. What do you mean by this exactly? Trump lost the popular election with 47.5% sup
by lightcatcher 10y ago
> So at best he seems to have gotten around 30% of the voters to vote for him.
What do you mean by this exactly? Trump lost the popular election with 47.5% support to Clinton's 47.7%. How did you come up with the "around 30%" figure?
- Jtsummers 10y agoAssuming 60% voter turnout (55-60% based on tallies at the time I wrote that, so 60% is the most optimistic/generous view). With 47.5% of that 60%, that puts him at around 28.5% of all potential voters voting for him. Near enough to 30% for my back of the envelope calculations. I did neglect the third-party candidates' percentages when I made that estimate, though.
- grzm 10y agoPerhaps that's looking at the number of eligible voters, rather than a percentage of actual votes cast. http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/eligible-voter-turnout-for-2016-data-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-republican-democrat-popular-vote-registered-results/ http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/eligible-voter-turnout-for-201... 231,556,622 eligible voters 59,791,135 for Trump (25.8%) 60,071,781 for Clinton (25.9%) I just grabbed the first website in the search results that had numbers, which are based on projections. I'm not standing behind their accuracy (I don't even recognize the site), but I have no reason to suspect they'd be purposefully wrong. And we're talking ballpark figures anyway.
- Jtsummers 10y agoThanks, I was about to edit my post with more accurate numbers but yours work.