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A majority of people who voted. Not a majority of eligible voters and certainly not a majority.
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what • today at 2:57 AM
Anyone who was eligible but didn’t vote effectively voted for whomever won. The distinction doesn’t matter.
sillysaurusx • today at 2:23 AM
Are you saying that if all eligible voters were forced to vote, Trump may have lost the popular vote?
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Hasnep • today at 3:07 AM
I hate Trump as much as the next guy but this feels like nitpicking. You're obviously right, but if you choose not to vote then you're implicitly approving of whatever outcome you get.
No one cares about people who don't bother to vote. If you can't manage even that you don't deserve an opinion.
blah blah some exceptional circumstances, etc you all know what I mean.