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Nobody gamed the electoral college this election. Trump won the popular vote too. Many voters are voting for the lesser of two evils; they don't like either ca
by harshreality 2y ago
Nobody gamed the electoral college this election. Trump won the popular vote too.
Many voters are voting for the lesser of two evils; they don't like either candidate. Non-voters are simply taking that to the next level: they can't decide between two evils strongly enough to value casting a vote.
Bikeshedding over the difference between active vs passive votes in a single-winner first-past-the-post election is fruitless.
- Uvix 2y agoIf they're truly both evils, there's always the option to do a write-in vote for someone else. Futile? Sure. But hopefully headlines like "X won the election with 30% of the vote" would start to raise eyebrows in ways that "X won the election with 49% of the vote" doesn't.
- jachee 2y agoGo back and read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212390 “voted for by >50%” is what I’m refuting. It’s literally, factually untrue.
- harshreality 2y agoI didn't argue that Trump received ≥50% of votes cast. GP's point was that far less than 50% cared enough to vote against Trump, which was their only real option if they didn't like him.