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If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016 (brilliantmaps.com)

submitted 7 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean….. no. Not really. 50% (more than) of the country would need to vote en masse for the same person.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree that if we could get that level of unity we’d be able to fix everything. But not being that unified is why we can’t in the first place.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why would more than 50% need to vote for the same person when the last few elections have been won with around 37.5% of the vote?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Because the electoral college is what needs to have a majority, not the general election.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Because the electoral college is broken.