He is currently at 72 million and in the last election got 74 million. This is the third comment in a row that I’ve had to say this. Where in the world are people getting these ridiculous numbers?

No it didn’t. 74 million votes in 2020, currently at 71 million. At best he matches previous numbers and that’s unlikely. Are people just making shit up?

No he isn’t. 71 million votes this year. 74 million in 2020. When the tally is done, at absolute best he matches his old performance within a percentage point so, and that’s unlikely.

Granted I don’t understand those people, but this difference between now and 2020 is lack of support for Harris, not increased support for Trump. I’ll add people sitting at home to the list of people I don’t want to associate with.

I could never fully understand the explanation for lift. It turns out it’s not the explanation for lift.

I recently learned that the same light is used to indicate that the parking brake is on and that the brake fluid is low. Nothing bad happened, and it’s getting worked on, but my first thought was that the sensor on the brake must be broken. It’s poor design, seemingly without reason.

I have heard that the actual reason for this is that trucks in that size range are not regulated by the EPA. Companies didn’t want to put in the research to develop trucks that met the mileage standards, so they just make them really heavy for no purpose, evading regulations. Take this with a grain of salt, because I’ve done zero research of my own on it.

Maybe something about apostophes or whatever.

Colle

The problem isn’t that states have disproportionate power and the NPVC is a poor solution. The problem is that all but two states allocate their delegates in a winner-take-all manner, so that a candidate with only 51% of the vote gets all of the delegates.

The NPVC requires huge buy in to work because in nearly half of cases it doesn’t result it a person’s voting power represening their actual vote. Thus, no individual citizen has incentive to support it. If it ever gets enough support to take effect, as soon as a state ends up with its delegates going to a candidate the citizens of that state didn’t vote for, they’ll repeal it and it will end nationally due to the wording of the law.

The solution is for states to allocate delegates proportionally to the votes of its citizens. That’s what voting is all about. If that system were in place, then there would have been no elections with a mismatch between the college amd poouivote. Every citizen had individual incentive for that system, and therefore you don’t need the group buy-in wording that thr NPVC has. It can be achieved on a state-by-state basis, and it would only need a few states to operate this way to have an impact.

Someone os going to point out that there are details and some states want to be fought over for their small percentage to swing the state, but the fact is that this solves the problem, and overwhelmingly this has fewer barriers and weakenesses than NPVC. If you care about this, contact your state government to change how delgates are allocated.

I think nitpicking the inconsistencies in a work of fiction is like going to a magic show and pointing out that it’s not real. No one cares that the balrog had wings, or was divine or whatever contrivance you need to chew on until its tasteless. Suspend some disbelief, and just let the thing fall.