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40% of the voting population*
by asdff 1y ago
40% of the voting population*
- nobody9999 1y agoActually, it was ~30% of the voting population. According to Wikipedia[0]: Trump/Vance received 77,302,580 votes (49.8% of votes cast) Harris/Walz received 75,017,613 votes (48.3% of votes cast) Total votes cast: 152,320,193. Those in the US eligible to vote[1]: ~250-260 million. 77,302,580/250,000,000 == ~0.3 or 30%. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia... [1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/census-briefs/c2020br-06.pdf https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/... [PDF]
- amalcon 1y agoThat's worse, though. It implies that 40% of the "electorate" was (in some combination) either prevented from voting or not bothered enough by the difference between plausible electoral outcomes to actually try to influence said outcome.