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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I did the math. I’ll see if I can find it. It wasn’t 25%, so I don’t know where that number comes from. My number was ~32%, and I can’t remember if that was % population or registered voters.

E: Found it, it's 32% of the adult population, conspiracy theory notwithstanding.

Most Americans did not vote for Trump.

Here’s how it works:

*US Population, adult over 18: ~250 million.

*Of that population, ~244 million are eligible to vote.

*Of eligible voters, only 63.9% voted.

*Of the 63.9%, less than half, 49.8%, went to Trump. To re-emphasize that point, Trump did not get more than 50%.

*Harris got 48.3%

*The ~1% difference voted third party.

The math is pretty basic. 63.9% of 250 million is 159.7 million voting, 49.8% of that voting for trump is 79.5 million.

So out of 250 million, ~32% actually voted for trump. The rest is the issue with the electoral college, but we’re talking people, not the EC.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your math is probably better than mine. I did a simple votes / total population.

Thanks for the info!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

YW. I gotta note a small wording error in my final statement, it’s 32% of the 244M (the voting population), not the 250M US population.