r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 10h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ I completely agree...

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u/Ok-Boomer-4414 9h ago

It’s not that simple. Trump won popular vote in 2024. Republicans won popular vote for house in 2022 and 2024. It will certainly change in 2026 but Democrats are currently the voting minority

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u/cocineroylibro 7h ago

He won 1. because he had his finger on the scale 2. people were pissed off.

Did Not Vote would have beaten Trump by 9 million votes.

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u/Ok-Boomer-4414 6h ago

And did not vote would have beat Harris by 11 million.

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u/cocineroylibro 6h ago

Did Not Vote almost would have been elected by the Electoral College.

As for "popular vote" for the House, you can thank Gerrymandering for that.

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u/Ok-Boomer-4414 6h ago

How does gerrymandering change popular vote for house? I am not talking about house seats. Talking about raw votes

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u/cocineroylibro 6h ago

In no contest seats why would people that don't like the candidate bother casting a vote?

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u/Ok-Boomer-4414 6h ago

Do that many people really go vote and then not vote?

You are really desperate to avoid the fact that there were more Republican voters than Democrat voters in last 2 elections. Democrats need to figure out their shit and stop ignoring the data or Republicans are going to keep winning. Pretending Republicans were not the popular choice is not a good start

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 5h ago

Democrats need to figure out their shit and stop ignoring the data or Republicans are going to keep winning.

They aren't stupid. They know what they need to do to win. They want the same things as conservatives they just want to manage the system better.

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u/cocineroylibro 5h ago

Do that many people really go vote and then not vote?

Yes? For instance, if there's no MAGA candidate in a Dem district, but you support Trump. That's one for Trump and none for the house runner.

Trump had almost 3 million more votes than the House GOP had as a whole. While all of those aren't straight no vote on the rest of the ticket it does happen.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 5h ago

He won 1. because he had his finger on the scale 2. people were pissed off.

  1. No.

  2. People don't want (neo)liberal policy but that's all Pete and his ideological cohort can do which means Trump and conservatives will always be competitive.

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u/nopleasenotthebees 3h ago

About 47% of US voters identify with or lean towards the democrats, versus 43% for republicans. That's not a huge lead, but when you look at a lot of big issues, an overwhelming majority of people take the side dems take. I think the democrats would sweep national popular votes. Regional popular elections would be very complicated though, because in a lot of places, a majority of voters identify as republicans but a majority of voters also side with the dems on many single issues.