More than 72 million Americans cast votes for Trump, which is a lot—about 21% of Americans, just a hair more than one in five.
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More than 72 million Americans cast votes for Trump, which is a lot—about 21% of Americans, just a hair more than one in five.
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@HeavenlyPossum I assumed that the percentage was a lot higher than this
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50.9% of all votes were cast for him, but this is a minority of Americans overall. Electoralism as it operates in places like the US is meant to appear to reflect “the will of the people” but has always been an elite project of minority rule.
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@HeavenlyPossum Does that mean there were overall more non voters than voters?
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@sashin
That's almost always the case.
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Yes. Turnout was about 65% of people eligible to vote, but millions of people in the US are not eligible to vote (but still, you know, count as people).
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@HeavenlyPossum @SallyStrange Why is it that some people aren't eligible to vote?
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Some people are too young, while others are disfranchised for various reasons (usually conviction for a felony crime).
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@HeavenlyPossum @sashin @[email protected] in some states they wanted to claim that new citizens aren’t eligible also
