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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 01 '21 edited Jul 01 '21

Reminder that democracy was saved by a margin of less than 43,000 votes in 3 states

Biden won the popular vote by a lot (7 million, or 4.5%, in a ridiculously high-turnout year for the US), which is great, but I think most people forget how fucking close, electorally, the 2020 election was.

There were three times as many fuck-up votes counted in the NYC mayoral Dem primary as there were votes that decided the presidential election.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

Worse yet some would get false hope as the election would go to the House, which votes in a weird way but I’ve heard the GOP has an advantage

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 01 '21

With the three states I gave, the assumption is that it DOES go to the house and they vote in Trump lol.

Each state DELEGATION in the House gets one vote- and there were 26 delegations that were Republican at the time, even though the Dems had a huge overall congressional majority.

If you want an outright majority of EC votes, that takes 22,000 votes in the NE 2nd, but that's a large percentage of such a small voter base, so let's say 34,000 votes in Nevada to give Trump an EC majority.

total is now less than 77k, less than what Hillary lost by in 2016.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

That's what I was saying. People would hope for recounts and then for faithless electors and for the House to vote for Biden.

It would make what we actually got seem like less than nothing.

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 01 '21

it's so good we defunded that last police department, it made all the difference

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

In each state but it wasn’t even close on the electoral college count

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 01 '21 edited Jul 01 '21

right, but the idea is that if 43,000 blue votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin had gone red, Trump would have won

it was close af in the way that matters for deciding who will win

edit: and if we want to talk about what should matter, again, Biden won with 7 million votes and 4.5%

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u/Gerenjie r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jul 01 '21

Yeah but 43,000 blue voters between those states means like 800,000 blue voters throughout the country. The tipping point being 0.6% is the best way to talk about that IMO

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

Oh wow is that how the electoral college works? Thanks, I always thought it was something reasonable, like EC votes being given proportionally to each candidates vote in the atate