Per the Cook Political Report, Harris won 73,794,005 votes, or 48.23% of the votes cast. Trump won 76,464,848 votes, or 49.97% of the votes cast.With Donald Trump now falling under 50% of the popular vote it falls to Democrats to speak for the majority of Americans who voted against him.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 16, 2024
Quite a mandate.
The majority is barely a majority. The minority is barely a minority. Change is still coming.
But it’s sure coming slow.
Legitimacy is something that should never be granted for someone who wins with less than 50% of the vote. That's something we learned here when Paul LePage was our 38% governor, the Trump before Trump, who Charles Pierce calls a "human bowling jacket."
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be surprised if there was not actual manipulation of the vote through those SWAT e-mails from Russia and through other ways, I don't think we should just accept that that's being done without calling into question the legitimacy of the results. And all voting should be done by mail as they have done so successfully in Washington State. It would bypass any of the kinds of election-day ratfucking that has been so popular, the kind of thing that William Rehnquist used to engage it but which the Senate Judiciary Committe was uninterested in hearing about. The kind of thing that contributed so heavily to Jeb Bush and his gang rigging the 2000 election for his brother with Rehnquist's help. Leading us to where we are now.
Our elections system is unworkable. I think we should turn them all over to Elections Canada who run independent clean, entirely transparent elections there and have been for a long time.