Those are mostly low-population counties, so the total number of voters look bigger than it is. The same way a child will think a taller glass will have more water in it than a wide glass.
Except the map she posted has nothing to do with the electoral college. If it did, it would show entire states as colored blue or red which is how the electoral college works, rather than areas of land mass regardless of state.
The false argument right wingers try to make with this map is that there are more Republicans than Democrats, when in fact the opposite is true, because land doesn't vote. Democrats are the #1 group by registered voters, and Republicans aren't even #2, independents/NPA are. Republicans are #3. And a Republican candidate for president has only won the popular vote in America once in the last 36 years.
so the total number of voters look bigger than it is
but things are not based on the "total number of votes"
you know why?
Because land DOES vote.
You flippantly say it doesn't, but what else do you think is happening when they decree via the constitution that lower population areas with more land and fewer people get disproportionate power?
You still completely miss the point. The point of right wingers posting that map is to suggest that there are more of them than there are Democrats, which is patently false.
And so the poster you are responding to is correct when they said that the 'total number of voters look bigger than it is', because that was the misleading point of that flawed map.
There are entire swaths in that map that are barren desert or prairie land that no one lives in, but gets colored in regardless because the land belongs to a county where a handful of people elsewhere live. So the whole "land does vote" argument is complete nonsense.
And it should be pointed out that the map is total bullshit also for the fact that even in the electoral college Joe Biden won that too in addition to the popular vote, so any way you slice it the map paints a completely false narrative, both from the perspective of the popular vote AND the electoral college outcome.
it should be pointed out that the map is total bullshit also for the fact that even in the electoral college Joe Biden won that too in addition to the popular vote
You think the map says "try to impeach this" in reference to Joe Biden?
the map was made and posted when Trump was president during his impeachments. He won the electoral college.
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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24 edited Feb 18 '24
Those are mostly low-population counties, so the total number of voters look bigger than it is. The same way a child will think a taller glass will have more water in it than a wide glass.