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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by bobwall on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:35PM (#24796097)
To be fair, the Trump team targeted the electoral college win. If they had targeted the popular vote, i.e. campaigning in states that they wouldn't win outright, but could garner votes, they most likely would have won the popular vote. Meaning they could have won that game if they had tried.
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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by rayiner on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:08PM (#24796319)
Correct. The popular vote is meaningless for the same reason who is leading after 500 meters in a 10k is meaningless. Nobody is trying to win the popular vote. Most of the voting eligible population doesn’t vote, and we don’t necessarily know which way things would break if folks campaigned for those votes.
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