ownsauce@lemmy.worldtoData Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml•Presidential election popular vote tallies lined up against “did not vote”
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1 month agoShould split this out by electoral college votes/states where the ‘did not vote’ could actually have made a difference. This is great info but also a bit misleading cause votes in swing states have more of an effect than increasing votes in deeply blue or deeply red states. The US president is not selected by a national popular vote. See on the chart how W Bush won the election but Gore had the popular vote, due to how the electoral college works.
Not discounting that more people should vote. I wish there were a national holiday in the US for everyone to get out and vote. But some votes matter more than others, depending on where you live, and this chart misses that nuance.
I didn’t either. Apparently there was some foiled terror plot at a concert this month.