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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by bilbo0s on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:57AM (#43611567)
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.

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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by mikestew on Monday April 07, 2025 @10:58AM (#43612279)
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.
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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by throaway1989 on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:58AM (#43611575)
Three elections (at least) where both candidates are historically bad.
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