If they didn’t vote they were happy enough for him to become president.
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Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 day ago77.3 million votes for trump. Wikipedia
73.6% of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote 174 million, 65.3% voted. 154 million. Census.gov
About 231 million people could have voted.
77.3/231= 33.4% or 1/3
To put it in perspective if you walked up to an American adult that could have voted in 2024. You are twice as likely to hear that they didn’t vote for trump or didn’t vote than they voted for trump.
robear@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep. Basically a minority got us into this mess.
Faildini@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And that’s just as a percentage of registered voters. Compared to a total percentage of the population it’s more like a fifth of people who voted for Trump. It really is a small minority and a broken electoral system that got us into this mess.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The 33.4% is out of every 18+ adult in America that has registered or could register to vote.
174 million are registered
57 million are unregistered
231 million total.
77.3/231=33.4%
340.1 million Americans in 2024
77.3/340.1=22.7%
So 22.7% of total Americans voted for trump. But that’s counting babies, children, and young adults.
Also trump won the popular vote in 2024 so the electoral system wasn’t the cause. Rigged or poor system yes but he would have won without the electoral college.