• ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    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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      7 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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        6 hours ago

        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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          4 hours ago

          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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      8 hours ago

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