tinyVoltron@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 13 hours agoReelecting Trump is the US equivalent of Brexitmessage-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1367arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1346arrow-down1message-squareReelecting Trump is the US equivalent of BrexittinyVoltron@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 13 hours agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejollinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 hours agoThe difference being half of Americans actually chose this. It was not a half passed unnoficial referendum.
minus-squareroofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 minutes agoNo, half of Americans did not. Maybe a third chose it, while another third chose to do nothing.
minus-squaredrake@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 hours agoWasn’t it something more like 23% of the population voted for him?
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 hour agoI think the point is he won both the popular and electoral. In 2016 he lost the popular vote but won the electoral anyway.
minus-squarejollinkfedilinkarrow-up1·54 minutes agoExactly. In 2016 I gave yall the benefit of the doubt.
minus-squareEnkrod@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·50 minutes agoIf you count the election as the biggest possible poll, that let’s you infer which way the non-voters would have gone. And if you are a non-voter, that means you have declared the eventual outcome as your preferred outcome, since you did not vote otherwise.
minus-squaredrake@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 minutes agoany journal that printed a study that did polling with the methodology of this election would lose pretty much all of their credibility
The difference being half of Americans actually chose this. It was not a half passed unnoficial referendum.
No, half of Americans did not. Maybe a third chose it, while another third chose to do nothing.
Wasn’t it something more like 23% of the population voted for him?
I think the point is he won both the popular and electoral. In 2016 he lost the popular vote but won the electoral anyway.
Exactly. In 2016 I gave yall the benefit of the doubt.
If you count the election as the biggest possible poll, that let’s you infer which way the non-voters would have gone.
And if you are a non-voter, that means you have declared the eventual outcome as your preferred outcome, since you did not vote otherwise.
any journal that printed a study that did polling with the methodology of this election would lose pretty much all of their credibility