Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
by ciupicri on Monday April 07, 2025 @11:16AM
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Why would immigrants who are not citizens vote?
Anyway, what about vote by mail? Also voting day could be changed to Sunday.
Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
by kccqzy on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:35AM
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They couldn't. That's why voters don't represent "most of the country" in any way.
Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
by bilbo0s on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:57AM
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The bad news is that 2024 was one of those elections where both candidates were so bad, that the winner didn't even manage to get 50% of the cast votes.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024
Trump/Vance got 49.1% of the popular vote, and Kamala/Walz got 48.3% of the popular vote. None of those clowns even cracked 50%.
The candidates were so bad, that you could win without getting a majority of the popular vote.
So, yeah, just a wholesale failure by both sides to inspire the vast majority of Americans. I guess right now, we're kind of seeing why no one was enthused about these guys being in power.
Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
by mikestew on Monday April 07, 2025 @10:58AM
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John F. Kennedy couldn’t get 50% against Richard Nixon, as just one of many examples of a fine candidate winning with less than 50% of the popular vote.
Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
by throaway1989 on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:58AM
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Three elections (at least) where both candidates are historically bad.
Most of the country couldn't vote at all because they are immigrants (not citizens) or because of any of the structural reasons why they couldn't take time off to vote or they were intimated at the ballot box. Voting day still isn't a federal holiday.