If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?
If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?
Only 40%.
Still terrifyingly high.
Trump won the national popular vote with a plurality of 49.8%, making him the first Republican to win the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004.
77,302,580 people is not half of America. It is 49.8% of the folks that bothered to vote.
More usefully,
In the 2024 presidential election, 73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote and 65.3% (or 154 million people) voted according to new voting and registration tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
50% of VOTING Americans
It’s right there, first line of the post you’re replying to.