Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
by thayne on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:03AM
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That doesn't change the fact that the majority of Americans didn't vote for Trump. In fact, the majority of people who did vote didn't vote for Trump. Yes, he won the "popular vote", but that just means he got more votes than anyone else, not more than half of the votes.
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Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
by reverius42 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:51AM
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I think he actually did get more than half the votes this time.
"Staying home" is not actually a vote, as much as people want it to be in their heart of hearts.
edit: sorry, I was wrong, he did not quite clear 50% -- looked it up and he got 49.8%.
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
by lostlogin on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:28AM
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The measure that interests me os the percentage of eligible voters that picked Trump - 31.6%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
by mhb on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @08:58AM
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Don't all the candidates base their strategies on the existing electoral structure? Why would he have wasted resources optimizing for a metric that isn't relevant? You don't know what the outcome would have been if he did that.