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Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population.

by j_w 10mo ago

mothballed 10mo ago
Harris only got 48.34%, so less popular vote than Trump. I was one of the 1.85% that voted for 'others', but still would have ranked Trump over Harris (this isn't so much a praise of Trump, just found him and Harris a couple of the absolute worst options), so it very well may be greater than 50% if you narrow those voters just to Trump and Harris, and absolutely over 50% if you discard their votes. It's contested and speculative, but a reasonable projection of Trump V Harris gives >50% to Trump in a finall runoff for majority.
- lovich 10mo ago
  Ok, but the claim was >… waaay more than 50%… You posted a lot of words to still not prove that claim
  - mothballed 10mo ago
    >>>Or maybe just the less of 2 evils. An intelligent asshat or non asshat that was an imbecile. It was time for a change. >>Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population. >You posted a lot of words to still not prove that claim A response was that Trump was the 'lesser' of the two evils. Someone then claimed Trump got less than the majority of all votes. Then I pointed out that when you narrow it to the 'two evils', which was the original claim, that it quite likely the majority. In fact, if you restrict to the two evils, trump did get the majority of the vote of the 'evils.' And if you forced those who voted for someone other than the 'evils' to pick an 'evil', something like 80+% of them would have to pick Harris in order for Trump not to get the majority vote of a runoff for the evils. Possible, but I think unlikely (also consider a very large portion of those 1.x% remaining were libertarian votes who tend to lean more R than D).
    - lovich 10mo ago
      You skipped this quote in your unrolling, which was in the middle of your supposed timeline > It was waaay more than 50%, and good ideas take time to execute but it's going swimmingly so far. I’m assuming you’re in bad faith now, so have a good day

Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population.

by j_w 10mo ago

Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population.

Harris only got 48.34%, so less popular vote than Trump. I was one of the 1.85% that voted for 'others', but still would have ranked Trump over Harris (this isn't so much a praise of Trump, just found him and Harris a couple of the absolute worst options), so it very well may be greater than 50% if you narrow those voters just to Trump and Harris, and absolutely over 50% if you discard their votes. It's contested and speculative, but a reasonable projection of Trump V Harris gives >50% to Trump in a finall runoff for majority.

lovich 10mo ago
Ok, but the claim was >… waaay more than 50%… You posted a lot of words to still not prove that claim
- mothballed 10mo ago
  >>>Or maybe just the less of 2 evils. An intelligent asshat or non asshat that was an imbecile. It was time for a change. >>Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population. >You posted a lot of words to still not prove that claim A response was that Trump was the 'lesser' of the two evils. Someone then claimed Trump got less than the majority of all votes. Then I pointed out that when you narrow it to the 'two evils', which was the original claim, that it quite likely the majority. In fact, if you restrict to the two evils, trump did get the majority of the vote of the 'evils.' And if you forced those who voted for someone other than the 'evils' to pick an 'evil', something like 80+% of them would have to pick Harris in order for Trump not to get the majority vote of a runoff for the evils. Possible, but I think unlikely (also consider a very large portion of those 1.x% remaining were libertarian votes who tend to lean more R than D).
  - lovich 10mo ago
    You skipped this quote in your unrolling, which was in the middle of your supposed timeline > It was waaay more than 50%, and good ideas take time to execute but it's going swimmingly so far. I’m assuming you’re in bad faith now, so have a good day