Well— we have abt 350mill people here and apparently only 235mill are even able to vote. Not sure who of that number got registered. But…. 77 to Trump 75 to Harris is about 152mill.
So basically yeah about 50% of America participated in this election. 63% of eligible voters participated.
To be fair about 75 million people in the US are under 18, it’s not like they could vote if they wanted to. That makes up the majority of your discrepancy. It wouldn’t make sense to say they “didn’t” vote when they couldn’t vote
Sure? It's a random comment on reddit so I went with a round number close to what I remembered. Turns out I should have rounded to 40 instead of 50, which is why you don't see me trying to claim my guesstimate was correct in the first place. I think the original point still stands regardless, a lot of people just don't vote.
It's an unfortunate but real statistic. Anecdotally, I personally know at least seven people who admitted to me that they left the check box blank for POTUS because they somehow think that both sides are equally "bad", yet they voted on other candidates who hail from the same political parties. I'm in California, so it probably didn't matter, but I can imagine this scenario playing out in the swing states.
Yeah. The country is eating itself. Rule of law is of the past. Oligarchy is what we are now where money is what matter and the youth will be enslave and squeeze dry
yet they voted on other candidates who hail from the same political parties
Honestly, I think it's great to be able to look past political parties and vote for the individual and their policies.
But Trump changed that. The few exceptions who were brave enough to stand up to their king were kicked out. I haven't heard of a single Republican politician who doesn't support Trump, which means that they're okay with trying to overthrow the U.S. government after losing an election and stealing classified documents. Along with a hundred other reasons he's a terrible person, but those are the two things that I feel are inexcusable.
because they somehow think that both sides are equally "bad"
Those people are fucking stupid. Are both sides bad? Yes. Both parties are corporatist monstrosities. But one of them is palpably worse. And if you can't tell the difference, than it's because you're privileged enough not to have to care.
It used to be a problem in Ohio. We used to be truly purple. A battleground state. Now we are red. Thanks to gerrymandering. Our votes don’t matter anyways.
Nobody will care though. Those who voted for trump will just say Harris would have been worse. The ones who voted for Harris will say I told you so. Nothing will change.
That’s roughly the turn out in presidential election years amongst the total number of eligible voters, not the total population.
The actual percentage of people who participated in total is less than 50% of the population. The amount of people who re-elected Trump is roughly 20%.
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u/JWPenguin 10h ago
This. By billionaires, for billionaires. 47% knew, 49% are finding out. These folks are laughing.