Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "'He could easily destroy us': See Tucker Carlson's private text about Trump" video.
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Let's start by looking at county counts. Right now there are lots of posts going around comparing the vote counts and counties won betweenObama, Trump, and Biden, making it seem like it's just not possible for Biden to have won the popular vote with the number of counties he won.
Biden won 527 counties, not 477. That's still far fewer than what Trump won, but it doesn't matter.
According to the U.S. Census, more than half of U.S. residents live in just 143 counties (or 4.6% of total counties). Counties vary vastly in size and population, from fewer than 100 people, to more than 10 million per county. In fact, Los Angeles County alone has more people than 41 whole states, and more than the 11 least populous states combined, which have a total of 416 counties between them.
So yeah, Biden could have won even fewer counties than the 500+ he carried, and still have come out on top in the popular vote. Especially since urban areas tend to vote Democrat in higher numbers than Republican.
And regarding the higher vote totals, well, yes. The U.S. has grown by more than 27 million since Obama was elected in 2008 and there was record turnout of voters in this election to boot. In fact, there were so many more voters this year, Biden could have lost the popular vote and still had more votes than Obama got when he won. Because that's just how numbers work.🤣
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Let's start by looking at county counts. Right now there are lots of posts going around comparing the vote counts and counties won betweenObama, Trump, and Biden, making it seem like it's just not possible for Biden to have won the popular vote with the number of counties he won.
Biden won 527 counties, not 477. That's still far fewer than what Trump won, but it doesn't matter.
According to the U.S. Census, more than half of U.S. residents live in just 143 counties (or 4.6% of total counties). Counties vary vastly in size and population, from fewer than 100 people, to more than 10 million per county. In fact, Los Angeles County alone has more people than 41 whole states, and more than the 11 least populous states combined, which have a total of 416 counties between them.
So yeah, Biden could have won even fewer counties than the 500+ he carried, and still have come out on top in the popular vote. Especially since urban areas tend to vote Democrat in higher numbers than Republican.
And regarding the higher vote totals, well, yes. The U.S. has grown by more than 27 million since Obama was elected in 2008 and there was record turnout of voters in this election to boot. In fact, there were so many more voters this year, Biden could have lost the popular vote and still had more votes than Obama got when he won. Because that's just how numbers work.🤣
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