Six Percent of the Population is Sticking Us with Trump?
Apr 10, 2016 11:41:03 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 10, 2016 11:41:03 GMT -8
Donald Trump has a teeny, tiny…
…base.
medium.com/@trumptruther/donald-trump-has-a-teeny-tiny-1db0e03229f7#.n3lu3n6at
Well, there's some interesting math in there. So let's try a more direct approach, and see if this theory holds up. Trump's best state so far was Massachusetts, where he got 311,314 votes in the primary.
That's just under ten percent of the 3,147,228 registered voters counted in the 2010 census.
That's six percent of the population of Massachusetts over 18, which is 5,128,706 according to the same census. Of course, this includes those in Massachusetts who are old enough to vote, but for whatever reason are not registered.
And that is 4.75 percent of the total population of Massachusetts, which is 6,547,629.
And his worst performance to date? That would be a territory called the U.S. Virgin Islands. But let's stick to states, and look at Wyoming:
112 votes represents 6/10ths of one percent of the 180,782 registered voters, 26/1000ths of the 428,224 citizens eighteen and older, and less than two one hundredths of a percent of the total population.
Sounds like they understated their case to me. Also sounds like a tiny percentage of the population picks our GOP candidate for us--and the general population has even less of a say in the Democratic Party, which is packed with superdelegates.
If the people of these United States ever wakes up to the relative unimportance of the two major political parties, and the latent power they possess if only they would register and exercise it, Washington, D.C. would suddenly become rather unhappy.
…base.
Finally, lets look at Trump’s base as a percentage of all eligible voters. According to Pew Research, the entire 2016 Republican primary electorate makes up only 17% of the voting-eligible population. As we know, only about 35% of that group has voted for Trump. 35% of 17% comes out to a grand total of 6% (Figure 4.) For reference, that is less than the number of Americans who believe the moon landing was faked (I suspect there is a lot of overlap between the two groups but I can’t prove it.)
medium.com/@trumptruther/donald-trump-has-a-teeny-tiny-1db0e03229f7#.n3lu3n6at
Well, there's some interesting math in there. So let's try a more direct approach, and see if this theory holds up. Trump's best state so far was Massachusetts, where he got 311,314 votes in the primary.
That's just under ten percent of the 3,147,228 registered voters counted in the 2010 census.
That's six percent of the population of Massachusetts over 18, which is 5,128,706 according to the same census. Of course, this includes those in Massachusetts who are old enough to vote, but for whatever reason are not registered.
And that is 4.75 percent of the total population of Massachusetts, which is 6,547,629.
And his worst performance to date? That would be a territory called the U.S. Virgin Islands. But let's stick to states, and look at Wyoming:
112 votes represents 6/10ths of one percent of the 180,782 registered voters, 26/1000ths of the 428,224 citizens eighteen and older, and less than two one hundredths of a percent of the total population.
Sounds like they understated their case to me. Also sounds like a tiny percentage of the population picks our GOP candidate for us--and the general population has even less of a say in the Democratic Party, which is packed with superdelegates.
If the people of these United States ever wakes up to the relative unimportance of the two major political parties, and the latent power they possess if only they would register and exercise it, Washington, D.C. would suddenly become rather unhappy.
