Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by jachee on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:27PM
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By your logic the “passive voters” would also support Harris if she were the winner. So you have to count them her way, too.
Which means they cancel out and no, “>50% of Americans” still don’t support the current regime.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by foxglacier on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:39PM
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No. Passive voters effectively for the winner, not the loser even if they don't know in advance who that will be. They're delegating their decision to their fellow actual voters, whatever that may be. Perhaps it's because they trust others to know better or perhaps because they don't care. I've tried to do this explicitly in a small club election submitting my vote as for "whoever gets the most votes" but the administrators didn't like that :P
You're right that my numbers were of the voting eligible population, though, and not the total population. Okay, so let's work that out.
244,666,890 total eligible voters - 156,336,693 total ballots cast = 88,330,197 passive votes for Trump
88,330,197 passive votes for Trump + 77,284,118 active votes for Trump = 165,613,316 total votes for Trump / 331,449,281 total US population = 49.9% of the total population figure
That is, indeed, just shy of 50%. So I'll concede that Trump did not have >50% of Americans supporting him. Just >50% of American voters.