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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

My over-generalized understanding is that it's more like 1/3rd, but because of exploited political geography their votes were "more special" than the rest of ours, so suddenly we arrived at:

"The whole country wanted this!"

(Historians' note: No they didn't.)

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

When I last looked at the numbers months ago, the actual number of votes for Republicans was 1/3 of the eligible voting population