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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  49.9% isn’t a majority. It’s a plurality.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Trump: 49.8% of popular vote (77,302,580 votes)

    Harris 48.3% of popular vote (75,017,613 votes)

    He won the majority, unless you’re counting spoiled ballots that accomplished fuck all against empowering dictatorship.

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Define words however you want, that doesn’t make it true. A majority is 50%+1. Anything less is a plurality. More people voted for someone other than Trump than those who voted for him.

      Beside the point, the original claim was a majority of Americans, and that isn’t even close to a majority anyways. Even with your funny definitions.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I would argue voting for a candidate you know will lose with certainty is not a vote for or against anything.

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    • earphone843@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The definition of majority is a percentage over 50%.

      49.8% is less than 50%

      I’m sorry if this is a difficult concept to grasp.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        77,302,580 + 75,017,613 = 152,320,193

        77,302,580 / 152,320,193 = 0.5075 = 50.075% = MAJORITY

        And thats me being generous, I honestly think every third party voter was complicit with the Trump victory. Didn’t think I’d have to show work for somebody to understand basic addition, today.

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