• Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
      320·
      17 hours ago

      Trump by no means barely beat Harris, she and Clinton were both around 220 votes and Trump has an easy 300.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        131·
        13 hours ago

        The electrical college will always look different ways because winner takes all voting. It’s all that matters at the end, but a 1.5% change in the voters would have flipoed most of the battleground states. It was closer than many make it out to be

        • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
          1·
          20 minutes ago

          …60 goddamn percent of the country either voted for Trump, or didn’t vote at all, meaning they voted for Trump. Explain to me how she barely lost.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          15 hours ago

          The fact that “closer” can be so diametrically opposed indicates a failure in the system.

          If it was close we’d have gotten, I don’t know, Mitt Romney or somebody.

          But the winner-take-all aspect means we get the dumbest, ugliest fascists ever. Just for a 1.5% difference.

          This is what a broken system looks like.