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Using your math/logic, what percentage of Americans voted for Obama?

• CamelCaseName 10y ago
  Good point. 30.79% in 2008 [0] 28.05% in 2012 [1] [0] 0.582 x 0.529 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... [1] 0.511 x 0.549 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
• mschuster91 10y ago
  Per http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/2012-voter-turnout/ http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/2012-voter-turnout/ in 2008 there voted 62.3% of eligible voters in total; Obama won with 52.92% of this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Barack_Obama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Barack_Ob...), that makes 32.96% of all eligible voters. In 2012, turnout was 57.5%, of which Obama won 51.06%. That makes 29.36% of all eligible voters. The problem is that it's really, really hard to get numbers on the question "how many people did not register themselves for voting rights, even if they could legally have done so?".
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    You can usually get stats on turnout as both % of registered voters and % of voting age population. Neither of those is exactly % of legally-eligible population, but together they bracket it.