Two things:
- 1: I'm pretty sure this violates our one-month moratorium on US presidential election posts
- 2: ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Landslide victory - does not get 50% of the votes....
Fix your shit US
It wasn’t a landslide, people who are saying that are just ignorant.
It was a landslide in the votes that mattered: The Electoral College. Dude got almost 100 more votes there than her, that's a landslide
popular vote doesn't mean jack shit, unfortunately
It looked like a landslide based on the first votes that were counted. Which is exactly what was expected. Even if Harris had had enough electoral votes to win, it would have looked a lot more red at first than what the end result would be, because Republicans are more likely to show up on election day to vote, while Democrats are more likely to mail in their ballots or vote early, both of which are counted after day-of votes in many states.
We knew this ahead of time and it also happened in 2020.
No, it wasn’t, even by the extremely biased and undemocratic standard of the electoral college.
By percentage of electoral college votes, Trump’s victory ranks 44th out of 60 elections. This is a solidly below-average victory and far from a landslide.
I mean, the electoral college is a weird weighing of the popular vote by state; ergo, the popular vote does mean things, but the popular vote doesn't.
My understanding is that he won Pennsylvania, therefore he deserves the Presidency, is that right?
So he lost the popular vote once again?
He still is ahead of Kamala by about 2% or 2.5 million votes. Before he was ahead of Kamala + Claudia + Chase + Cornell + Jill + Vermin Supreme + Elmo.
It's still a closer gap than he lost to Biden by by a lot. But it is also super clear that Harris managed to do worse in this environment than Hillary did in 2016 back when Trump was an unknown crazy person instead of the well known crazy shill for hire.
The voter suppression wasn't as rampant in 2016 as it was this year.
Maybe the dems should have done something to actually reform how the electoral system works at any point they had power post-Bush which was quite frequently BTW. This didn't happen because the democratic party makes money off devouring its base and loves losing so much it will even send money to republican candidates in areas where they have totally lost any presence.
Maybe the dems should have done something to actually reform how the electoral system works at any point they had power post-Bush which was quite frequently BTW.
"Had power" is doing a lot of work in this sentence.
Well only when compared with the other candidates combined together. He still got more votes than Harris.
West coast best coast