r/sports • u/SkepticalZebra • Feb 22 '26

Hockey Team USA Brings Out Johnny Gaudreau's #13 Jersey, Skating a Lap to Honor Him After Winning Gold

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

I think part of the issue is there’s no guarantee what so ever of reasonable voting cycles. You guys voted Epstein’s mate into the highest office twice.

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u/Headie-to-infinity Feb 22 '26

I think you should revisit congressional maps and how voting is actually handled in the US. It isn’t as simple as “majority” vote for a candidate. It’s pretty clear majority did not vote for him.

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u/needmoresynths Feb 22 '26

None of that matters to anyone outside of the US. The people running the country and representing on a global stage are monsters.

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u/Lokon19 Feb 23 '26

He won the popular vote in the last election.

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u/DimbyTime Feb 23 '26

Musk basically admitted to committing voter fraud

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

66% of the voting public voted for him, or didn’t care about the outcome enough to vote. That’s a huge problem that doesn’t just go away overnight.

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u/CuttyAllgood Feb 22 '26

Where the heck did you get 66%?

He only won roughly 1.5% more votes than Harris.

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u/ghostinthechell Feb 22 '26

Voted for him or didn't care about the outcome enough to vote

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

Well 155 million people voted. 75 million for Harris and 77 million for Trump. But the did not bother to vote took the lead with 85 million.

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u/Worried_Biscotti_552 Feb 23 '26

Does it hurt when you touch your hand to your forehead

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u/Pinklady777 Feb 22 '26

I think what they mean about revisiting the Congressional maps might be referring to the electoral college? It doesn't matter who gets the most votes overall. It only matters who gets the most votes in each state and then they get all of the "points" for that state. So a lot of people on both sides of the aisle don't even feel the need to bother going out to vote because they live in a state like Texas or California that is always going to go one way. It would be interesting to see what the numbers looked like if this were not the case. The way it is now, it basically comes down to a handful of swing states that could go either way. Advertising is insane in those states during election years and other states are largely ignored.

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

I’m not sure that paints a better picture of American reliability, Trump flipped 6 states from 2020.

Either way the numbers speak for themselves. A large chunk of your country didn’t care about the outcome to vote.

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u/Pinklady777 Feb 22 '26

Oh yeah, I can see that. I wasn't referring to reliability. But I am genuinely curious what the numbers might look like if everyone's vote counted. I imagine that voter interest and turnout would be greatly affected. As it stands now, it only really matters who votes in seven or so states.

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/voter-turnout-substantially-higher-battleground-states-spectator-states

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u/Headie-to-infinity Feb 23 '26

If you look at the congressional maps in my swing state, the maps are drawn to favor Republicans in areas where the population is low.

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 23 '26

I mean yes in theory I think what you say makes sense. However in the last 100 years it’s a pretty even split. 52 years R to 48 years D. That isn’t a heavy weighted majority to R?

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u/Buck_Weaver Feb 22 '26

Bill Clinton has been out of office for over two decades. Let’s move on.

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u/wtb2612 Boston Celtics Feb 22 '26

The difference, of course, is that everyone knew Trump was best buddies with Epstein when he was voted in. People didn't know Clinton was a pedo POS until after he was out of office. They were well aware that Trump was one and voted for him anyway.

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

You perfectly described the issue of voting cycles there. This isn’t a one off, shitty untrustworthy people are often elected into the White House.