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enointtoday at 1:50 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s a weird way to say 50.1% of votes were against Trump.


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bryanlarsentoday at 3:51 PM

Agreed, it is a weird way of saying that. But it is basically what I'm saying.

I used the word "endorsed", not "voted". The distinction does matter.

Only about 25% of the voting age public voted for Trump. Almost 25% of the voting age public weren't registered to vote, perhaps some of them wanted to vote but couldn't, so let's use the registered voters as the denominator. 75.8% of them voted; roughly one third for Trump, one third for Harris and one third didn't vote.

Choosing not to vote against a likely outcome is an endorsement of that outcome in my opinion.

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