Quote (YeeHaw @ Nov 10 2022 07:45am)

Bro the candidate with the biggest % of the votes wins. I real y’all’s conversation why is this so confusing to you?

Some states have a threshold you must win by or it triggers a special election/runoff election where there is basically a revote. But most of the time whoever gets the most votes wins, no matter the margins.

Quote (Ghot @ Nov 10 2022 07:09am)

Yes. But "during" the race, the percentage keeps going up and down. My OCD can't deal with that. :-)
See the pic in post #416

Quote (excellence @ Nov 10 2022 02:08pm)

people who pay taxes and work hard and got something going on for themselves are outnumbered by lifelong govt leeches like that user in America now. no wonder things are going the way they are

Quote (YeeHaw @ Nov 10 2022 08:48am)

Percentage is x/100. Meaning for every 100 votes this candidate has this many. It is a way to more easily see how close things actually are. Instead of saying the vote is 43,670 votes in favor of somebody, they say somebody is up by 2.7% or whatever.


Idk man I just feel like you should know how percentages work I’m trying to help ya out :rofl:

Quote (excellence @ Nov 10 2022 06:12am)

^sbd

some more demographic analysis, source is meh but the numbers are probably in the vein of reality

https://twitter.com/BradWilcoxIFS/status/1590409234818420737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Quote (Thebarba @ 10 Nov 2022 12:45)

If the entire country had voter ID + same day in person voting + same day results, Democrats would never win elections.

Quote (Ghot @ Nov 10 2022 08:08am)

LOL. I know how percentages work. The discussion here is what we're finding the percentage... OF.

Quote (IceMage @ Nov 10 2022 08:05am)

1.5k vs 1.5k.

Quote (Surfpunk @ Nov 10 2022 09:16am)

The only thing that matters in elections is the percentage of cast votes candidates receive (and by extension the actual number of votes, from which those percentages are derived).