We won by 3% of the vote...1 in 33 saved us all and voted for our democracy.

[Stuart G]

.................50.7%.....75,245,603 ...Biden
.................47.7%.....70,821,392 ...Trump

..........................Total Votes.....145,000,000.....

I am so grateful that we still have our government in place, and we will for the next 4 years. But I ask,

"How could it be this close?..

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=Percent+of+election+&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US495&q=election+percentage+results+&gs_l=hp..1.0i457i22i10i30j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l2.0.0.1.158240...........0.SJRYQv0TDa8#spf=1604876552488

[Drunken Irishman]

1. It'll definitely be more than three-points. It'll be around five-points when all said and done.

That's a pretty strong margin in the popular vote, with only Obama's seven-point win in 2008 besting it of the 21st Century elections.

[ZZenith]

2. Um...

Slightly more than one in two saved us, thank you very much.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. There's still 11 million votes to count.

Bare minimum of a 5 point win. Maybe 6.

[Stuart G]

9. Thank You for that information...I didn't know that so many still needed to be counted..

...Today is Sunday...Election was Tuesday...Why so many need to be counted?...
............Hell, I don't know nothing.... ....

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Happens every election.

Will be weeks before CA is done.

[Indykatie]

4. There Are Still Millions of Votes to Be Tallied But It Still Will Be Closer Than it Should n/t

[Stuart G]

6. Here is my deepest feeling....Trump had close to 4 years to lie, cheat, and con people.

...People watched and listened to the con man day after day after day.

....How could so many people still vote for the liar con man?
....Trump lied about one of the most deadly threats in our history, yet still so many voted for him..

...After all the lies about so much, I thought far fewer would vote for Trump. Thankfully, we still won,
and our country is saved for a while. But how could so many people vote for the ....liar con man?

[bdamomma]

8. it's sickening

propaganda works, you keep on repeating a lie over and over people will believe it.

So sad. We should never go down this road again.

[dsc]

5. He did about 3 percent better in terms of margin than Clinton did

as pointed out above this margin is likely to be about 5 maybe 6 when all is said and done. Similarly she was up by a bit over 1 and wound up a bit under 3. And that margin most transferred to the five states he flipped. Only GA is going to be considerably more ahead of Clinton's margin than that. Abrams is probably much of the reason for that.

[LisaL]

7. Hmm.

Winning popular votes means more than half of voters voted for Biden, not just 1 in 33.

[Stuart G]

10. Yes, you are correct...but the difference was just 1 in 33 when looks at the totals...

Perhaps I didn't make that clear....sorry...I have been up too much and watching all of this...

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[Thekaspervote]

12. And that says nothing of all the votes that were lost in the mail- 27% in SO FL alone

[Blue_true]

13. Your question is what is eating me up inside.

71+ million saw a person that divided the nation when he could gain from that, and called a deadly virus a hoax, and they concluded that he was the best person to lead the country for the next four years - that is beyond worrying.

[Stuart G]

14. I am sorry for this...perhaps.....

this should not be asked......but others will ask too..

Maybe better to ask later...not now..

[Clearly fogged in]

15. An interesting perspective

The alt right has a group named for the 3% of people instrumental in the revolution. Breaking down the numbers of 70 million to 3% is roughly 2 million. Gladwell's book The Tipping Point illustrates how things can take a change of direction at a saturation point. I posit that we saw the 2 million trump supporters in action, and not the others. How close did we get to the tipping point? Did the pandemic affect the numbers significantly enough to have saved us?