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What half? 19% of people in the US voted for Trump.

• taneq 10y ago
  What? How did he get elected then?
  • maxerickson 10y ago
    Lots of people don't vote.
  • robotresearcher 10y ago
    Only about half of eligible voters voted. Of those, slightly more voted Democrat than Republican, and a distant few voted for someone else. Despite getting the second-most votes nationally, the geographic distribution of the Republican votes gained them quite a few more "electoral college votes" (i.e. winning points) than the Democrats. The electoral college system gives more power to the countryside than the cities, proportional to the population.
  • lhopki01 10y ago
    US population: 324,420,000 Number who voted for Trump: 62,985,106 Trump won 57% of the Electoral College, 46% of those who voted, 25% of the voting age population and 19% of the population as a whole. That's not half the US population.