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If you only have 35% of the popular vote, you aren't going to win in the electoral college.





That's what happned in 2024, right? you're not accounting for the fact that 30-40% of the country does not vote in nationals.

No, it's not what happened... The election was not won with 35% of the popular vote...

Again, if you insist on talking about "35% of people in the US" rather than "35% of voters", then fine, but I think it's a weird way to talk about it. We don't know what the people who didn't vote thought about the candidates. Voting is the way that we find that out!


>if you insist on talking about "35% of people in the US" rather than "35% of voters", then fine, but I think it's a weird way to talk about it.

When were talking about adhering to a dangerous status quo, the conversation makes sense. A status quo of boring beauracracy can be defendable. A status quo of fascism, much less so. Thars why conversations in 2025 are like this.

Even then:remember Trump still had a 40% approval rating after all this.




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