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I am saying yes, Trump was less popular than Romney in 2012. I don’t know what you’re getting at for the rest. But it doesn’t change the fact that he’s still a

• lapcat 4y ago
  > I am saying yes, Trump was less popular than Romney in 2012. Huh? > I don’t know what you’re getting at for the rest. Obviously. In 1984, Ronald Reagan got 54,455,075 votes. In 2020, Trump got 74,223,975 votes, 20 million more than Reagan (and 13 million more than Mitt Romney). By a measure of raw votes, Trump is much more popular than Reagan. But of course that's highly misleading, because the US population was smaller in 1984, and the voter turnout was smaller. Reagan won a landslide reelection of 49 states (except Minnesota, home state of his opponent Walter Mondale) and 59% of the vote, whereas Trump got only 47% of the vote and lost. So when you say "Biden won the most votes of any American in history", that's not meaningful by itself, because the US population is larger now than ever, and the 2020 election turnout was unusually high. Biden only got 51% of the vote, which was much smaller than Reagan and also smaller than Obama in 2008, not to mention smaller that George Bush in 1988. Most votes in history is not a meaningful measure of popularity. How many votes did George Washington get? FDR? You can't compare raw vote totals when the population itself changes.