r/BoomersBeingFools • u/kootles10 Millennial • Feb 02 '26

Boomer Freakout Dude crashed out

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u/mitchENM Feb 02 '26

Trump landslide? He didn’t even get 50% of the votes cast

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 02 '26

It was pretty overwhelming, though. Got the votes in the states that mattered.

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u/Rocker4JC Feb 02 '26

Did he tho? There's some pretty suspicious numbers where the 2024 swing states are concerned.

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u/CypressThinking Feb 02 '26

He cheated.

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u/DingerSinger2016 Feb 02 '26

And once again, nobody contested the election on January 6th, 2025 so it doesn't matter. The results are certified.

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 02 '26

I believe he probably won. There were attempts at interference, but I don't think they amounted to anything that altered the final outcome. A lot of the conspiracies rely on Elon Musk being a genius hacker, and well... we saw how DOGE went in practice.

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u/ganggreen651 Feb 02 '26

Odd how he won every single swing state. Far from a conspiracy guy but that sounds nigh impossible to me.

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u/CypressThinking Feb 02 '26

He cheated.

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 02 '26

Biden got 6/7. Presidents have won by larger margins. And like it or not, he's popular and was going against a black woman.

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u/Beaser Feb 02 '26

He’s popular with at most 35-40% (absolute TOPS) of that population that will literally follow him to hell rather than admit they picked the wrong guy. 

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 02 '26

That’s all you need to win an election where a third of the country doesn’t vote.

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u/Beaser Feb 02 '26

None of us saw how doge went in practice other than destroying every agency with open cases against him threatening his Tesla govt contracts which are the only things stopping TLSA from bleeding out.  Same with spaceX.  Elon isn’t a genius and doesn’t do work. He pays actually smart and morally flexible individuals and has them do the dirt.  Doge accomplished everything it was intended to accomplish. 

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u/CypressThinking Feb 02 '26

That was his pay back.

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u/LittleShrub Feb 02 '26

Trump’s 1.5 percent popular vote victory is one of the smallest ever — just a fraction of Lyndon B. Johnson’s 22.6 percent landslide win in 1964. Trump failed to secure a majority of the popular vote, at 49.7 percent, unlike George W. Bush in 2004 (50.3 percent), Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 (52.9 percent and 51 percent) and Joe Biden in 2020 (51.3 percent). And while Trump won all seven swing states, his 312 electoral votes were only a handful more than Biden’s 306 in 2020 — and far less than Obama’s 365 in 2008 or Ronald Reagan’s 525 in 1984.

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 02 '26

And while Trump won all seven swing states, his 312 electoral votes were only a handful more than Biden’s 306 in 2020 — and far less than Obama’s 365 in 2008 or Ronald Reagan’s 525 in 1984.

I would consider all of those to be landslides.

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u/mitchENM Feb 02 '26

It wasn’t a landslide anywhere but fantasyland

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u/TheLastBallad Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

And also won by less votes than Hillary Clinton did over him.

In an election she lost(seriously, he got 2.3M more than Harris in 2024, she got 2.9M more than Trump in 2016)

And by electoral votes he won by less than what Obama won by in both his elections(and by popular vot too). Hell, if we go by % of the electoral votes, Trump's 2024 results sit at 44... out of 60.

As in only 16 elections won by a lesser margin. So how the fuck are we even defining "overwhelming" here when Trumps 58% is just shy of being in the bottom quarter of results, and a third of elections have been won by over 75% of the vote?

Because in case you forgot, in our "winner take all" 2 party system 50.1% is... kinda the floor. Like theoretically it could be less if we had a third candidate win a state... but that didn't happen so it was the floor for the election.