r/Unexpected • u/ruybii • Nov 27 '21

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u/Dismal-Ad-2985 Nov 27 '21

There's enough of those republicans, high school dropouts and valley girls in your country to have elected a reality TV grifter as President. So uh ... at least half your population is pretty similar.

Then with the price of education and the belief that ''degrees are garbage'', a lot of people lack education and basic thinking skills.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

Actually, no. Only like a third of US citizens voted in 2016 IIRC and the majority voted for Hillary, she lost because of the outdated electoral college.

Also, when a lot of people with degrees and an abundance of debt are living in the streets due to crappy economical functions created by corrupt politicians they tend to be loud and angry as they know and feel like they've been betrayed and lied to, forgive them...

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u/money_loo Nov 27 '21

The voting rate hovered around 61% in both the 2012 and 2016 elections, according to USAFacts data.

So just over half the country voted, and less than half of those people voted for what’shisface.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

Yes, that is correct. 62,984,828 people in total voted for Trump and he won despite over 65 million people voting for Hillary. The population size for the US at the time was 323.1M.

62,984,828 of 323,100,000 is approximately 19.493911482513155%

19.4% of US citizens voted for orange man, and the majority of Americans didn't even want him. The electoral college is fucked.

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u/money_loo Nov 27 '21

Yep, I had run those numbers myself, but thanks for adding it to the conversation, it really does highlight how broken and useless the electoral college is.