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Correction: half the country didn't vote for Trump. Half the country didn't vote. About quarter of the country voted for him.

• xienze 9y ago
  Because surely the half that didn't vote wouldn't have voted for him either. So really, when you think about it, 75% of the country voted for Clinton.
  • kazagistar 9y ago
    ... wat? You cant just count nonvoters for your candidate. They chose not to vote as a way to say your candidate sucks.
    • xienze 9y ago
      Well you obviously missed the sarcasm. I was making fun of the stupidity of the "ACKSHUALLY only 25% of the country voted for him" argument, which is needless pedantry and ignores that we can infer how the rest of the country _likely_ would have voted since we have such a large sample size.
      • danharaj 9y ago
        You realize that {people who voted} is no where near an independent random sample and has far less power than its size suggests?
  • theWatcher37 9y ago
    This is a rediculous assertion
• notyourloops 9y ago
  Half the voting population voted for him.
• Chris2048 9y ago
  The half that didn't vote, voted to let the other side decide.