• Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
      315·
      5 hours ago

      Trump by no means barely beat Harris, she and Clinton were both around 220 votes and Trump has an easy 300.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 hour ago

        The electrical college will always look different ways because winner takes all voting. It’s all that matters at the end, but a 1.5% change in the voters would have flipoed most of the battleground states. It was closer than many make it out to be

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          The fact that “closer” can be so diametrically opposed indicates a failure in the system.

          If it was close we’d have gotten, I don’t know, Mitt Romney or somebody.

          But the winner-take-all aspect means we get the dumbest, ugliest fascists ever. Just for a 1.5% difference.

          This is what a broken system looks like.