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49.5% of 65% of eligible voters voted for him.. hardly a majority any way you slice it, either of voters or of the broad population.
by chowchowchow 11mo ago
49.5% of 65% of eligible voters voted for him.. hardly a majority any way you slice it, either of voters or of the broad population.
- lotsofpulp 11mo agoIt’s a first past the post election system, meaning you vote for the lesser evil. And this was Trump’s 2nd go around, where he campaigned on pardoning traitors. Anyone that didn’t vote for Harris gets lumped in with the supporters of the current administration, for all intents and purposes.
- chowchowchow 11mo agoEh. You can’t claim the non voters all implicitly support him though since they didn’t know the outcome ahead of time. I’ll agree they didn’t sufficiently oppose him ahead of the 2nd time to bother voting. But that’s far from support.
- terminalshort 11mo ago49.5% of 100% of the votes
- NewJazz 11mo agoStill not a majority.
- ryandrake 11mo agoIf you add the eligible voters who chose not to vote (indicating they were fine with whoever wins), then it's a clear majority. If you don't vote, your vote is effectively for the winner.
- NewJazz 11mo agoThat makes zero sense at all. They didn't know who would win in advance.
- ryandrake 11mo agoBut they were OK with that person winning, whoever it would be. If they weren't, they would have voted for someone else.
- NewJazz 11mo agoThat's not how a majority works. You're also making assumptions about why they didn't vote.
- chowchowchow 11mo agonot being motivated enough to vote against != support in terms of claiming a popular mandate. If I just don't care who wins, you can't say I support either candidate. At most you could say my inaction prevented the winner from losing I guess.