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14% of the US elected trump.

• datsci_est_2015 10mo ago
  I know it’s lower than 50% but I wanted to get a better idea myself. Numbers rounded to the nearest 5 million - Trump voters 2024: 75m - US population 2024: 340m - US population >18 2024: 265m - % pop Trump voters: 22% - % pop >18 Trump voters: 28% What numbers did you use?
  • asdff 10mo ago
    Guesstimate from the last time I was curious about these numbers. Looks like I was pretty close.
• SideburnsOfDoom 10mo ago
  For the rest of the world, this number is a complete irrelevance. The purpose of a system is what it does - and the system in question today is the US electoral system. That's what "Other countries only see that the US elected Trump" means.
  • notahacker 10mo ago
    Yeah. Also not an edge case where an unpopular candidate sneaks in by virtue of deadlocked opponents and quirks of electoral math, or a case where voters thought they were getting a moderate who then pivoted in a different direction. Trump's been open about his belief that trade is a zero sum game he's going to win by crushing other economies with tariffs, his contempt for Western democracies and his admiration for Putin for several years, the corruption isn't exactly hidden and even the Greenland nonsense isn't new. It won him a plurality of votes because most of his base was enthusiastic about his approach and the rest didn't mind.