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Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you Democrat voters have your sense of moral superiority! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

You have it backwards. The morons voted 3rd party.

Trump - 77,302,580 - 49.8%
Harris - 75,017,613 - 48.3%

Fun with math:

49.8 + 48.3 = 98.1.

77,302,580 + 75,017,613 = 152,320,193

152,320,193 = 98.1% of the vote.

x = 100%, solve for X.

152,320,193 * 100 / 98.1 = 155,270,329 total votes (approximately).

155,270,329 - 152,320,193 = 2,950,136 voters who failed to vote for Trump or Harris.

Flipping the popular vote would have required 2,284,968 of them to vote for Harris. 77.45%.

Even then, that's not a guarantee thanks to the Electoral College:

Trump won Pennsylvania at 50.37%. Getting all the non-Trump votes behind any single candidate would have still lost. Harris or otherwise.

Arizona? 52.22%

Nevada? 50.59%

Georgia? 50.73%

South Carolina? 58.23%

Only 2 atates could have seen a non-Trump vote flip the election to Harris:

Wisconsin - 49.60%
Michigan - 49.73%

But even if Harris won those 2, it wouldn't have been enough to flip the election.

Electoral vote:
287 (270 to win) - 251

If a 3rd party won those two, which would have been the first time a third party won ANY state since 1968, it wouldn't have been enough to flip the election.

287 - 226 - 25

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

x = 100%, solve for X.

100%? Is that the answer?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nope, keep reading. :)

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

I was making the joke about interpreting the line as if it were a mathematical equation. "x=100%" "solve for x" "x would be 100%" lol just playing around

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was rigged like all the elections since the 90's. Only this time they got away with it because the chickenshits stayed home while Russia phoned in fake bomb threats. Or they decided to cling to their own moral integrity and allow Nazis in the door.

Why bother with data when it's irrelevant anyway.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 4 days ago

Oh no, not moral integrity!! Lmao do you listen to yourself? Dems let Nazis in the door, to be clear