> The Trump administration’s popularity is already below 50%
Just under 50% of the population voted for President Trump, so it's a given that "already" the popularity is below 50%.
Just under 50% of the population voted for President Trump, so it's a given that "already" the popularity is below 50%.
I'm not just being pedantic, it's an important distinction.
156,302,318 voted (~63.9% of ~244 million eligible voters, extrapolated)
77.3 million voted for Trump (~49.8% of voters).
So that's ~31.6% of eligible voters or ~22.7% of the US population.
- I live in a deeply partisan state where the outcome was predetermined: a disproportionate amount of those who didn't vote would have to vote in the opposite of those who voted (if I lived in a different state the pressure to vote would have been greater)
- I lack an easy means to get to my polling location and my state makes absentee ballots difficult to get
- I would have probably also needed to do some ID stuff (my ID is currently expired, for reasons)
- Registering to vote puts my name/address/registered party/etc onto easily searchable public websites like https://voterrecords.com/
My reasons aren't great but they're reasons. If there was less friction to voting I would have voted, as I recognize it's an important civic duty.