05-16-2018, 05:47 PM
(05-16-2018, 05:37 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I've heard people credit Trump winning the election as a sign that the American public is (insert a number of things here).
So quick math...
325 million Americans, about 60% of people bothered to vote so that's 195 million votes, 63 million of which voted for Trump and 66 million voted for Clinton. So 19% of Americans actively voted for Trump and 20% actively voted for Clinton. If we just use actual votes the it's about 137 million total votes which means about 48% for Clinton and about 46% for Trump.
So, depending on how you look at it, either 19% or 46% of people voted for Trump...either way, those numbers aren't ringing endorsements that America is clearly sick of being PC or sick of immigrants, or sick of democrats, or whatever people like to claim based upon Trump being in the White House.
I could get a lot more into this and discuss how in 2016 voters that tend to vote Democratic were less enthusiastic and so they voted in lower rates than those that tend to vote Republican. But we have gotten far enough of topic in this thread.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
