'Not capture a majority': Trump's landslide claims evaporate as final vote counts come in https://t.co/0pxeljRcTC
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 22, 2024
According to the report, "With some votes still being counted, the tally used by The New York Times showed Mr. Trump winning the popular vote with 49.997 percent as of Thursday night, and he appears likely to fall below that once the final results are in — meaning he would not capture a majority."
That led Lynn Vavreck, a political science professor at UCLA to quip, "If the definition of landslide is you win both the popular vote and Electoral College vote, that’s a new definition,” before predicting, "I would not classify this outcome as a landslide that turns into evidence of desire for a huge shift of direction or policy.”Must be autumn.π
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I would bet you anything that a ranked-choice vote would have put him below Kamala Harris in the final results. It was one of the things I liked about our ranked-choice system is that it would possibly prevent the last choice of a majority of voters winning the election as you get from the typical way of doing it.
No one should be allowed to gain an office unless they get over 50% of the votes, there's nothing democratic about that.π―
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I would bet you anything that a ranked-choice vote would have put him below Kamala Harris in the final results. It was one of the things I liked about our ranked-choice system is that it would possibly prevent the last choice of a majority of voters winning the election as you get from the typical way of doing it.
ReplyDeleteNo one should be allowed to gain an office unless they get over 50% of the votes, there's nothing democratic about that.