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Comment by lonelyasacloud

7 hours ago

> Uh....that's more the fault of a president

Who so far has been put into office twice by?

Voters, but a minority of them.* Then kept in office by a minority (43%) of Republican Senate legislators.

* Yes, that is the correct term. In each election >50% chose "Not Trump".

  • > Yes, that is the correct term. In each election >50% chose "Not Trump".

    Uhhh... Not voting at all doesn't count as "Not Trump". It counts as "I don't care," which implicitly means "whatever everyone else thinks".

    This is such a dumb thing to try to play semantic games about. A majority of voters elected the clown, and the population of non-voters is complicit in that.

    • Your comment is supercilious and confidently-incorrect. The most-charitable interpretation is that you have been misinformed ever since the last election from some preliminary estimate of incomplete counts.

      1. Of all ballots, only 49.7961% were for Trump. [0]

      2. Of ballots where someone made a non-blank choice for President, 50.1976% were for candidates who were not-Trump.

      So when I explicitly wrote about a "minority" of "voters", that really does mean an an actual mathematical minority of the people who actually voted, thankyouverymuchdamnit.

      [0] https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...

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