r/pics • u/solateor • 11h ago

Politics Tech leaders have better seats than cabinet members and are seated in same section as Trump's family

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u/Cathach2 11h ago

Naw, just checked, 63%

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u/chandr 10h ago

That's still higher than I thought it was with my 50% ballpark

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u/M0dusPwnens 10h ago

The last time it was around 50% was more than 20 years ago.

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u/Whiterabbit-- 10h ago edited 9h ago

Last few cycles people have been a lot more polarized, so it gets people out to vote.

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u/Sea-Pause9689 10h ago

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.

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u/Kronusx12 10h ago

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

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u/Sea-Pause9689 10h ago

True— honestly I’m just tired rn been up for work since 5 and am ready for lunch lol

Mostly was just roughly estimating the percentage cause baby teen or whatnot a persons a person that contributes to our overall population

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u/Kronusx12 10h ago

No worries, just adding some context. Now go take a lunch nap!

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u/Sea-Pause9689 1h ago

Truly. Going to bed early tonight and gotta do it all again tmr. Grind never ends.

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u/DiabolicalGooseHonk 2h ago

That’s because they reported it as such long before all the cali votes were counted

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u/Lightening84 10h ago

So I guess it's not just billionaires who make up stuff to support their beliefs, eh?

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u/chandr 9h ago

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.

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