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Originally Posted by Linkster
You missed the point - the final election with two candidates - only 24% of the US population voted for Trump...and about the same for Clinton - because so many people sat out the election
And yes I understand statistics of marketing and random sampling...however when you miss 52% of your target sample group completely you might be off a little
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And that's a pretty good turnout for an election.
Most people simply never vote. They are too busy living their lives to even care about politics.
I don't agree with how that is...but it's the truth. The 2016 election was actually one of the most talked about and participated elections in a long time. But as you pointed out...it's still not a lot of people voting.
Hillary and Trump combined had less that 130 million votes (pretty good for the U.S. historically)...but there were 235,248,000 people of voting age in the country in 2012. Even more in 2016.
People just don't vote. Instead, they bitch about who won afterwards.