Oddbean new post about login | logout @ab25e353 @e396cd52 ⭕#registertovote It's a fact that #tfg won in 2016 Nov by only 77,744 votes from 3 States, see image below The similar number of folks in an outdoor sports event ❌#electoralcollege https://theconversation.com/us-2016-election-final-results-how-trump-won-69356 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/swing-state-margins/ https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/020/821/265/665/278/original/6277fdad95be2efb.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/020/821/438/593/148/original/e2ddbbf6eea4f838.jpg
@94ee12b4 @ab25e353 @e396cd52 The Big House at Michigan has a maximum capacity of ~115,000, so in fact Chump’s 2016 “margin of victory” (for lack of a better term—since technically Clinton DID win by a margin of 2 million votes) would be equivalent to only 2/3s the size of the crowd in that pic!
@0ae25726 @ab25e353 @e396cd52 The Presidential election is not a National vote, it's a representative kind of (if I may) a fucked up dance Trump won by 77k votes in 2016 Nov in 3 States Biden won by about 44k votes in 2020 Nov in 3 States, 😬 I think Hillary Clinton had almost 3 million votes in 2016 Nov I think Joe Biden had almost 7 million more in 2020 Nov https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/021/381/299/612/654/original/955532d6beb57a9d.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/021/381/455/612/203/original/af19001ca3db551f.jpg
