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nobody9999 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests...

Actually, it was ~30% of the voting population.

According to Wikipedia[0]:

Trump/Vance received 77,302,580 votes (49.8% of votes cast)

Harris/Walz received 75,017,613 votes (48.3% of votes cast)

Total votes cast: 152,320,193.

Those in the US eligible to vote[1]: ~250-260 million.

77,302,580/250,000,000 == ~0.3 or 30%.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

[1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/... [PDF]

amalcon 8 months ago [–]

That's worse, though. It implies that 40% of the "electorate" was (in some combination) either prevented from voting or not bothered enough by the difference between plausible electoral outcomes to actually try to influence said outcome.

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