Thursday, 17 November 2022

How Voting Stacks Up

 2020 total Presidential votes: 158.5-million

2016 total Presidential votes: 136.6-million

2012 total Presidential votes: 129.1-million

2008 total Presidential votes: 131.3-million

2004 total Presidential votes: 120.0-million

2000 total Presidential votes:105.4-million

1996 total Presidential votes: 96.3-million

1992 total Presidential votes: 104.0-million

1988 total Presidential votes: 91.6-million

1984 total Presidential votes: 92.6-million

1980 total Presidential votes: 86.5-million

So three obvious points that you notice....

1.  About every ten years, there's a ten-million voter jump.

2.  2020 is an odd jump, because it bumped up 22-million in four years.

3.  Most of all voting patterns now....are urbanized.  Rural sectors haven't grown....but city patterns have more than doubled over the past forty-odd years.  

1 comment:

LargeMarge said...

Number Three:
Oregon here.
The entire population of farmers, ranchers, loggers, and other rural folk is ruled -- not 'governed' -- by a few delusional city-folk in Portland, Salem, and Eugene.
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In my humble, those three population centers could organize as city-states, and leave the rest of us alone.
Those city-folk in their city-states would be free to pass any delusional 'moon-beam' 'laws' their little hearts desire.