• Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
    421·
    1 day 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
      171·
      23 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
        12·
        11 hours 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.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 hours ago

          That’s not even true. Less than 50% of the people who voted, voted for Trump.

          He didn’t do much better than 2020 when he lost. The U.S. population increased by 2.5% from 2020 to 2024.

          Numerically with the population growing by the 2.5% we saw a 4.5% drop in voting in 2024.

          Reasons are all speculation.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 day 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.