• Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
      420·
      1 day ago

      Trump by no means barely beat Harris, she and Clinton were both around 220 votes and Trump has an easy 300.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        161·
        21 hours ago

        The electrical college will always look different ways because winner takes all voting. It’s all that matters at the end, but a 1.5% change in the voters would have flipoed most of the battleground states. It was closer than many make it out to be

        • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
          11·
          8 hours ago

          …60 goddamn percent of the country either voted for Trump, or didn’t vote at all, meaning they voted for Trump. Explain to me how she barely lost.

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 hours ago

            That’s not even true. Less than 50% of the people who voted, voted for Trump.

            He didn’t do much better than 2020 when he lost. The U.S. population increased by 2.5% from 2020 to 2024.

            Numerically with the population growing by the 2.5% we saw a 4.5% drop in voting in 2024.

            Reasons are all speculation.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          23 hours ago

          The fact that “closer” can be so diametrically opposed indicates a failure in the system.

          If it was close we’d have gotten, I don’t know, Mitt Romney or somebody.

          But the winner-take-all aspect means we get the dumbest, ugliest fascists ever. Just for a 1.5% difference.

          This is what a broken system looks like.