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Worth noting, 49.8% of the voting population wanted this. Voter turn out was 63.9% of the adult population. Which means the numbers are closer to * 1/3 of adul
by SkyPuncher 2y ago
Worth noting, 49.8% of the voting population wanted this. Voter turn out was 63.9% of the adult population. Which means the numbers are closer to
* 1/3 of adults voted for Trump
* 1/4 of the entire population voted for Trump (though, that's a bit of weird example since kids can't vote)
- brewdad 2y agoA distinction without a difference at this point.
- School-Cotton 2y agoWhy? Not voting is perfectly rational if you, like most Americans, live in a state where your vote doesn’t matter.
- jmye 2y ago… Do you think President is the only thing on the ballot? Do you think that maybe, if everyone voted, the demographics might be different? I’m so tired of this nonsense. If y’all bothered showing up for state and local races, you could even change elections in your state. But that would like, take effort, so I get why you’d rather shitpost about how worthless it all is.
- School-Cotton 2y agoWe were talking about the presidential election.
- jmye 2y agoAh, so by “not voting” you meant “leaving one box blank while already filling out the rest of the ballot because what’s the point of wasting the ink”? Sorry, that reads, to me, like post hoc justification for nonsense. The only people who talk about voting not mattering are people who don’t vote - not people who skip one or two boxes on the form. Maybe you’re different.
- khazhoux 2y agoThe people that didn't vote don't count, figuratively or literally. You may as well have pointed out that only .1% of all mammals supported this, after accounting for dogs, cows, raccoons, mice...
- SkyPuncher 2y agoYes, they absolutely do. There's a big difference between a country that has 50% support of a person and 25% support of a person.
- khazhoux 2y agoEveryone who chose not to vote effectively removed themselves from the set of people to be counted as either supporting or not supporting this administration.
- mandmandam 2y agoThat's not actually how 'support' works, especially when 'the' alternative was committed to arming a genocidal apartheid regime against the will of their own voters. Many. many people can no longer stomach to 'hold their noses' and vote in favor of open atrocity. There's a whole lot of people who strongly disdain both parties, on that basis and others. They are not remotely proportionally represented by either government or media, but they do exist and they don't support this administration. Btw, there are all kinds of electoral solutions to the two party bind which you seem to have entirely accepted. Neither party will ever willingly bring those in.
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- CalChris 2y ago57% in Kansas.