Comment by rayiner
6 days ago
Multiple polls have found that Trump would have won by an even larger margin if those people had voted.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-elec...
https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubfs/2024%20Blue%20Rose%2...
And yet, they did not vote. People often say things in polls that don't align to their actions.
Sure. But polling has consistently underestimated Trump voters, including in this most recent election.
Yeah, polls are limited in a variety of ways. The election results at least represent when someone took some amount of effort to vote.
2024 eligible voters: 244,666,890
2024 ballots cast: 156,766,239. 64% of eligible voters cast a vote
Trump votes: 77,284,118. 49.2% of votes cast, 31.6% of eligible voters
Harris votes: 74,999,166. 47.8% of votes cast, 30.6% of eligible voters
Trump got 1% more of the eligible voting population to go through the effort of casting a vote. That's not nothing, and it put him in office, but it's not a landslide that grants him an unquestionable public mandate.
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