and why doesn’t everybody vote? I don’t understand why it isn’t mandatory i think everyone should have to, men, women, and children. If you can read the ballot, you should be able to vote. I know my nephew wouldn’t have voted for trump and he’s 10!

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 months ago

    Roughly, 40% of Americans simply didn’t vote. Of the remaining 60%, half (30%) voted for Harris.

    That makes - roughly- 70% who didn’t vote for trump.

    A word of warning, we don’t know who that 40% would have voted for had they been forced to. I assume it would follow the same percentages as those who do vote, but there’s no way to know.

    Edit: Also note, that’s of eligible voters. 32% of the US population is ineligible to vote (roughly 8% of the total population are adults that are ineligible.)

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      3 months ago

      Of course, it’s also important to realize that 70% of Americans were fine with Trump being president. 70% of America didn’t vote for Harris when Trump was the likely outcome of the election.

      • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Some people also voted ideologically, like wanting to show that Stein, etc. had a following and that people dislike the 2-party system. That doesn’t mean that they “were fine with Trump being president.”

        • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
          22·
          3 months ago

          So the electoral college complicates things somewhat - a voter for Stein in California probably thought their vote would have no impact anyways - but voters for Stein in more competitive states were absolutely fine with Trump being president.

          Due to the vote shenanigans in 2020 I think it was wise in this last election to vote for Harris because had their been an electoral college/popular vote split with Harris winning the college Trump would absolutely try and overturn the results again… but I know most Americans are less politically aware.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    Why do people say more people didn’t vote for Trump than did?

    Because more people didn’t vote for Trump than did.

    Trump got more of the popular vote in the U.S. in 2024 than any other candidate did, but he still didn’t get 50% of the vote. He got like 49.80% of the popular vote. And that isn’t even considering those who didn’t vote.

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 months ago

    You want children to vote?? Children will vote for whomever their parents vote for.

    Jfc were beyond repair