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LiberalFighter

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4. Other Data

Reply to glennward (Original post)

Sat Jun 18, 2016, 04:09 PM

Jun 2016

2000
11,877,869 -- Bush
[font color="white"]x[/font]6,457,696 -- McCain
[font color="white"]x[/font]1,327,172 -- Others (6)
[font color="white"]x[/font]7,784,868 -- All Republicans except Bush

Bush had more (a majority) votes than all Republicans combined.
Population of United States in 2000 -- 281,421,906
Bush vote percent of population -- 4.22%

2016
12,982,514 -- Trump
[font color="white"]x[/font]7,347,281 -- Cruz
[font color="white"]x[/font]3,352,038 -- Rubio
[font color="white"]x[/font]4,090,366 -- Kasich
[font color="white"]x[/font]1,428,394 -- Others (8+)
16,218,079 -- All Republicans except for Trump

Trump has fewer (a plurality) votes than all Republicans combined.
Population of United States in 2016 -- 323,801,667
Trump vote percent of population -- 4.00%

Trump would need over 13,664,430 primary votes to have the same comparison as Bush's 11,877,869 primary votes.

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So, aren't there more voters than ever in our elections? So why wouldn't Trump have more votes than [View all] glennward Jun 2016 OP

There numbers were highest in history yeoman6987 Jun 2016 #1

Trump is way down in the polls BTW. Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #3

Polls in June are suspect davidn3600 Jun 2016 #5

Please rephrase the question. Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #2

Other Data LiberalFighter Jun 2016 #4

Trump has over 13.3 million votes Separation Jun 2016 #6