Nov 08th - US Presidential Elections 2016

[Bobby1]

Re: Nov 08th - US Presidential Elections 2016

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@azkar @Bobby1 @Southie

Here are some very interesting but painful facts:

The early data found that of the U.S. population:

• 46.6% of total eligible voters didn’t vote at all. (Almost half of US)
• 25.6% voted for Hillary Clinton
• 25.5% voted for Donald Trump
• 1.7% voted for Gary Johnson

For the swing states:
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• 36.5% didn’t vote
• 29.9% voted for Clinton
• 30.9% voted for Trump
• 1.9% voted Johnson

Comparing with last election:

2012 Obama: 65.9m
2016 Clinton: 59.1m = -6.8m
2012 Romney: 60.9m
2016 Trump: 59m = -1.9m

Another painful fact:

Over 11,000 people voted for Harambe. Harambe is a dead gorilla for last 6 months. I’m quite sure those voters were mostly liberals.
Those 11,000 votes would have saved our country.

Lets talk about THIRD PARTY candidates:

Third-party candidates may have made the difference. In Florida alone, they won a combined 300K votes. Clinton would have easily pocketed that state and remember she only need 1 swing state.

So if anybody tells you Trump did great in elections, slap them with these stats and tell them its us who shoot ourselves in the foot by not voting or throwing our vote away. The only lament is, its not going to heal anytime sooner.
A very long and dark winter is coming.
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You are so correct, it seems like a case of complacency. I think many thought that it would be an easy win for Democrats and didn’t bother showing up to vote. Freedoms are not rights but privileges and people need to make an effort to preserve them.

I ponder over the war against Nazis if we were to hand control to fascists then what was the point of WWII