If 5% of the people that voted straight party ticket voted republican (a positive number of people), and 20% of the people that voted single candidate voted for Trump (a positive number of people), you would get 5%-20% = -15% difference. The -15% is not how many people voted, as that number is still positive, its just the difference in % of the 2 catagories.
He thinks the X axis was republican turnout overall rather than the percentage of republicans that walk in click one button that auto-fills the rest, then yeet the fucker at the counter.
No, I do get that.
So we are looking the difference between straight party vote vs individual candidates.
Let's undue the subtraction to get the percentage for Trump, okay? So we take that 5%, and add it to the -20%. that's -15%. how Does Trump get to -15% of the in individual vote???
The data point we are refering to indicates that 5% (X) of republican straight party voters voted for Trump, while 25% of single candidate voters voted for trump. 5-25 =-20 giving (X=5,Y=-20)
Incorrect. that math is x - individual votes, not individual votes - x.
If 25% of single candidate voters voted for trump, that would be a +20, not a -20.
Guy is also claiming Trump got negative votes around 4 minutes, he clearly doesn't understand the graph he's looking at.
If Republicans get 5% of the vote, and Trump underperforms them by 20%, how many Votes did Trump get?
If 5% of the people that voted straight party ticket voted republican (a positive number of people), and 20% of the people that voted single candidate voted for Trump (a positive number of people), you would get 5%-20% = -15% difference. The -15% is not how many people voted, as that number is still positive, its just the difference in % of the 2 catagories.
yea, this guy doesn't get it.
He thinks the X axis was republican turnout overall rather than the percentage of republicans that walk in click one button that auto-fills the rest, then yeet the fucker at the counter.
No, I do get that. So we are looking the difference between straight party vote vs individual candidates.
Let's undue the subtraction to get the percentage for Trump, okay? So we take that 5%, and add it to the -20%. that's -15%. how Does Trump get to -15% of the in individual vote???
The data point we are refering to indicates that 5% (X) of republican straight party voters voted for Trump, while 25% of single candidate voters voted for trump. 5-25 =-20 giving (X=5,Y=-20)
Incorrect. that math is x - individual votes, not individual votes - x. If 25% of single candidate voters voted for trump, that would be a +20, not a -20.
well either way its not negative votes