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Don’t you see the contradiction in “she won the popular vote” and “she was a shit candidate”?

Both of these things can be true. If “did not vote” had been a candidate in 2016, it would have won in a landslide. Just 8 states + DC had enough voters turn out such that any candidate won more votes than there were eligible voters that didn’t bother. As a percentage of eligible voters, Clinton received 28.43% of eligible voters, with Trump trailing at 27.2% of eligible voters. While Trump outperformed Romney (2012) by 2M votes, Clinton underperformed Obama in 2012.

As a percentage of the entire US population (including those too young or other ineligible to vote) Clinton got votes from 20.30% of the population and Trump got votes from 19.41% of people.

They both sucked so badly that just over a quarter of eligible voters/less than a fifth of everybody was all it took to elect Trump

(source https://brilliantmaps.com/did-not-vote/)

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