As of 8:35pm on 11/06/2024, the current popular vote totals in one of the most contentious Presidential elections in history are 72,560,841 votes for the Republican candidate at 50,9% of the total, and 67,871,826 votes for the Democratic candidate at 47.6% of the total. In the 2020 election, the Republican candidate received 74,223,369 votes with 46.9% of the total, while the winning Democratic candidate received 81,282,916 votes with 51.3% of the total. The 2020 winning candidate triumphed with 306 Electoral votes over the losing candidate’s 232 Electoral votes, despite only winning 477 counties against the Republican’s win of 2,497 counties, and while winning only 1 of the 19 bellwether counties. Achieving beyond all expectations, the Democratic candidate received 11,793,400 more votes that the record high of Barack Obama of 69,489,516 votes in 2008.
Today we mourn for the 15,073,618 voters who have passed in the past four years since the 2020 election. Or perhaps, they were already dead and just failed to haunt us during the 2024 election.
