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749 points doener | 1 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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paulyy_y ◴[01 Feb 25 13:52 UTC] No.42898268[source]▶
What's more depressing is this was completely predictable, totally avoidable, but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.
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dylan604 ◴[01 Feb 25 15:28 UTC] No.42899048[source]▶
Can we please stop this bit of misinformation?

Trump: 77,168,458 votes (49.9%)

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqne...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/president-re...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/...

More people voted for Trump, but it wasn't half the country. There were a lot of people that did not vote at all. The most accurate would be to say that nearly half of the votes cast went for Trump. That is not half the country

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treve ◴[01 Feb 25 15:32 UTC] No.42899104[source]▶
It's accurate to say more than half let this happen. You can include the people that didn't vote.
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1. dylan604 ◴[01 Feb 25 15:49 UTC] No.42899264[source]▶
I hear people say this in various forms. No vote is still a vote kind of concept.

If anything it was the 1.6% of votes that went to other candidates that could be seen as a spoiler. You'd have to say that all of that 1.6% would have gone to Harris for it to have been a spoiler though, and I doubt that's the case.