• ltxrtquq
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      12 hours ago

      Taking the data from here and throwing it in a spreadsheet, Trump got more votes than everyone else combined, including the Libertarian party, RFK Jr, and Write-ins.

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        11 hours ago

        Looking at that chart, she would have won in Wisconsin and gotten their ten electoral votes.

        What does it look like for the rest of the states?

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          Across the country, it was Trump: 71,825,780 Everyone else: 69,303,000

          It says at the top of the page it was last updated a day ago, but I kind of doubt the numbers will change too dramatically.

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            10 hours ago

            The other person was making the point that you can’t do it by total popular vote, you have to do it by state and then look at their electoral college votes.

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              But the electoral college is dumb and pointless. This is the first time a Republican won the popular vote since 2004, or since 1988 if you don’t want to count an incumbent victory. That alone should tell you plenty about the state of the country right now.

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                It’s dumb and pointless, but it’s literally the way a president is elected today. We have had many instances of people being elected president who didn’t win the popular vote. So if you want to try to figure out if third party candidates caused Trump to get elected, you have to look at it state by state.

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                But the electoral college is dumb and pointless

                And its also how a president is elected in the United States, or 2016 would have gone a bit differently.

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            11 hours ago

            67m for Harris to 72m (rounded up) on the BBC; it was really not close eh.

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        But how do you count “didn’t vote”? And what about “voted on other parts but not for President because genocide or whatever”? That second group might be countable, but the first is like proving a negative

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      12 hours ago

      Honestly, it doesn’t matter, even if every single 3rd party voter went for Harris, Trump still wins