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Re:Physical location of live stream found using flights patt... by taneq on Sunday March 12, 2017 @08:37PM (#13854285)
What? How did he get elected then?
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Re:Physical location of live stream found using flights patt... by robotresearcher on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:37PM (#13854580)
Only about half of eligible voters voted. Of those, slightly more voted Democrat than Republican, and a distant few voted for someone else.

Despite getting the second-most votes nationally, the geographic distribution of the Republican votes gained them quite a few more "electoral college votes" (i.e. winning points) than the Democrats. The electoral college system gives more power to the countryside than the cities, proportional to the population.

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Re:Physical location of live stream found using flights patt... by maxerickson on Sunday March 12, 2017 @08:39PM (#13854305)
Lots of people don't vote.
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Re:Physical location of live stream found using flights patt... by lhopki01 on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:57AM (#13856233)
US population: 324,420,000 Number who voted for Trump: 62,985,106

Trump won 57% of the Electoral College, 46% of those who voted, 25% of the voting age population and 19% of the population as a whole.

That's not half the US population.

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