[chneu]

But you're focusing on small counties, essentially "land that votes".

One metro area generally outweighs 90% of the counties in a state.

Take Oregon for example. Look at eastern Oregon where trump ran away with like 80% of the vote. But then you look at population numbers for those counties and you'll quickly realize that ONE NEIGHBORHOOD in Portland has 5x as many residents as that entire county. One neighborhood in Portland actually has more people than most of Oregon counties. It's kinda wild how empty they are.

The fact is that conservatives are pretty outnumbered. Which is why conservatives disenfranchise voters and rely on gaming the electoral college. It's also why conservatives tend to move to where other conservatives live, among other reasons. If people showed up to vote then Republicans would lose elections way more often.

But looking at a map and seeing red counties is not "more people voted trump". It's just "sparsely populated counties voted trump" which is not the same thing.

There's a subreddit called "People Live in Cities" that makes fun of this misinformation tactic. It's just maps that show where people live, but cite other metrics.

[mplanchard]

Every county in Oklahoma, including the ones containing their cities, went for Trump in 2024. What you’re saying is often true, but GP is exactly right about some of the midwestern states.

The popular vote went ~2/3 in OK to Trump.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_president...

[mullingitover]

Of all the states Oklahoma is certainly one of them, however its 4 million people aren't even 2% of the total US population.

Cherry-picking aside, the victory margin in the 2024 election was the smallest in over five decades, only the 2000 and 2020 elections (where the loser of popular vote was able to seize power on technicalities, they had negative victory margins) were smaller.