• Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

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

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      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.world
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        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.