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    5 months ago

    Did you actually read the text of the meme? The 2016 graph is to show that the electoral college can invalidate the popular vote.

    There are 155 million levers. The plurality of the levers might win, but sometimes 46% of the levers is enough to beat 48% (this happened in 2016 due to the electoral college, see above) ----> big arrow pointing to the 2016 election results