Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump?
Lemming421@lemmy.world 1 month agoTo demonstrate the lack of a “clear mandate”.
Yes, Trump will win if he gets one more vote than Biden, but the more he loses the popular vote by, the more justification people have for protesting.
So off he wins on electoral college votes but loses the popular vote by a landslide, at least it shows what The People are actually thinking.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We can just as easily define the popular vote as being the sum of all non Trump votes.
No Trump doesn’t need to be Yes Biden.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It doesn’t matter how you define it. It matters how the people that report on it define it. And almost universally, that’s horse race numbers.
Third parties are pretty much invisible for 95% of people until they start breaking into the horse race.
Nobody have a fuck about Ralph Nader or Pat Buchanan till they mattered for the result of the actual election in 2000.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, it matter how the strategy analysts view the raw data. Not the media.
Only if you focus on winning. Bernie didn’t run in the primaries to win. He ran to influence.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 1 month ago
oh just stfu