tinyVoltron@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 16 days agoReelecting Trump is the US equivalent of Brexitmessage-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squaredrake@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoWasn’t it something more like 23% of the population voted for him?
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoI think the point is he won both the popular and electoral. In 2016 he lost the popular vote but won the electoral anyway.
minus-squareEnkrod@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoIf you count the election as the biggest possible poll, that let’s you infer which way the non-voters would have gone. And if you are a non-voter, that means you have declared the eventual outcome as your preferred outcome, since you did not vote otherwise.
minus-squaredrake@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoany journal that printed a study that did polling with the methodology of this election would lose pretty much all of their credibility
Wasn’t it something more like 23% of the population voted for him?
I think the point is he won both the popular and electoral. In 2016 he lost the popular vote but won the electoral anyway.
If you count the election as the biggest possible poll, that let’s you infer which way the non-voters would have gone.
And if you are a non-voter, that means you have declared the eventual outcome as your preferred outcome, since you did not vote otherwise.
any journal that printed a study that did polling with the methodology of this election would lose pretty much all of their credibility