See how small the difference is between the number of votes for Dem(Democrats) and Rep(Republicans) are. A 5 Million (5M) vote difference seems like a lot, but then compare it with the 108 Million (108M) difference between the Voter Turnout (VTO) and the Voting Age Population (VAP)... The USA's problems with Democracy are deeper than Trump and the Republicans...
Inspiration: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/trump-ii-a-pre-mortem/
Figures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections
https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-States-Presidential-Election-Results-1788863
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Another visualization of the USA pres. elections since 2016. Talks about USA elections often sound like those among people rooting for professional sports teams. We should be discussing policy and participation... So VTO, Voter Turnout's been interesting, and now I want to see the TurnOut in relation to the VAP, Voting Age Population and VEP, Voting Eligible Population. Years ago Chomsky mentioned vote-counts being within statistical margins of error. See it here?
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Here's a racket-plot and pict view of election results for the past 3 USA presidential elections. The difference between the Democrat and Republican vote numbers seems so small compared to the difference between the Voter Turnout (VTO) and Voting Age Population (VAP) numbers...
I'll try to put the .csv data files and racket code on-line in a git repostiory soon.
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