If passed in the Senate, EV and hybrid ownership may get a little more expensive

are you on that again chap?

 

This is a short thread. Here you are in post #20 talking about posts that claimed the election was rigged.

So, which of the first 19 posts claimed that? I've just skimmed them all again....

 

Well, forget it then.

 

Great. So, just making sure people who aren't Paul don't lose track of the facts:

Both the presidential and the house elections were decided by pluralities: 49.80% and 49.75%, respectively. So nearly, but not quite, half of voters are getting what they voted for. (That was in post #13.) Those percentages are of people who actually cast votes.

There are other percentages you can also calculate. Rmay635703 posted this one in post #15: "22% of the population voted in the current administration". That's a percentage of the whole population, including all the people who didn't vote for whatever reason (including being too young, or ineligible).

The ~ 77.3m who cast votes for this administration, divided by the 341m to 348m total population of the country, comes to 22.1 to 22.6 %.

I'm not sure how useful it is to compute the percentage of the whole population including people who couldn't even have voted if they'd wanted to. But if you do, you get that number, which is correct.

Does that mean anything was rigged? Of course not. It means a lot of people didn't vote.

There are a couple maybe more useful other percentages you could compute.

You might consider all people who were eligible to vote in the election (whether they did or not). There were about 245m of those, so the votes for the current administration were around 32% of the voting-eligible population.

Or you could consider all people who were old enough to vote (whether eligible and registered or not, and whether or not they voted). There were around 265m of those, so the votes for the current administration were around 29% of the voting-age population.

But wrapping back around to the people who were old enough, and eligible, and registered, and actually got off their duffs and voted, 49.8% of them voted for this administration. The rest, more than half, made other choices.

In the US, a plurality, short of a majority, can win, as long as nobody else got a bigger plurality.

In the state where I had high school, a diploma could not be granted to a student who did not understand this.

I'd like to think that was the same where Paul grew up.



Voter turnout in United States presidential elections - Wikipedia
2024 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

 

erp

 

Yeah, whatever.