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He still won the popular vote.
By being less less poplar than he was last election, because the Dems were even less poplar
What do poplar trees have to do with this ?
Their wood is too soft to stand up to the Republicans, the Democrats need something stronger, like oak or maple.
I kinda like the sound of Maplecrat.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what Yew can do for your country!
Soon there will be no more of them
The first line of the summary starts with ...
He still has more than Harris. I'm not thrilled about any of this, I just don't see any sort of significance of being under 50% when we already don't use the popular vote for anything meaningful. If it drops below Harris's, then that's worth talking about.
Very, very slimly.
i think in presidential elections in order to "win" you need at minimum a 51% vote. Otherwise you don't actually win, but i could be mixing some shit up lol.
Voting is fucking weird.
You can win the presidency with as little as 22% of the popular vote. https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k
is this the electoral college win, or did they "win" the popular vote since they had more of the votes than the opponent.
A genuine real win via the electoral college can happen with as little as 22% of the popular vote.
yeah i believe i said winning the popular vote though.
You asked me an "or" question.
yeah, and it was the wrong answer.
Your question doesn't make any sense, but I was being polite.
The scenario described is illustrating how lobsided small states' electoral votes are. With 22% of the popular vote a candidate can with the electoral vote. Their opponent gets the other 78% of the popular vote.
It's always an air-quotes "win" of the popular vote in America because we don't use the popular vote to determine the winner.
The video is short. I've spent longer talking about it than the runtime of it. Just go watch it if you want the content explained.
i believe in the original comment, i was referring to the popular vote, you could surmise i was talking about the electoral vote if you thought i was somehow converting elector votes into percentage points. But that would be weird.
iirc my original statement was that you need a certain minimum percent of the votes to officially win the popular vote, irrelevant to the electoral vote.
It seems like you're abstracting winning the popular vote, to winning the election, which are two vastly different concepts, as is winning the electoral vote.
I'm literally not doing that, just watch the video if you're confused. You can win over 50% of the electoral vote with as little as 22% of the popular vote by winning the smallest states first because they have proportionally more votes. I fear I can't make this simpler for you to understand. The video is like five minutes.
i dont ever recall mentioning the electoral vote, but you do you boo
interesting, don't see anything about winning the popular presidential election here
I wasn't contradicting you. I was sharing a (not so) fun fact.
no but that was also me asking a clarifying question, because i knew you were talking about the electoral college, and i was talking about the popular presidential vote.
I don't understand the point of this exchange. Watch the video. I was literally just sharing a video.
yeah, i really don't understand it either, but i guarantee you the video is going to agree with my knowledge on the topic anyway.
Well, apparently not since my statement confused you so much.