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Plausible that Russians did help Trump win
The electoral college win for Trump was determined by 77,744 votes in key states. In an election where 139,000,000 people voted, that amounts to less than .0005% of the vote. Given the coordinated and extensive efforts by Russian foreign nationals that was detailed in Mueller's indictments, it seems improbable to me that they did not influnce hundreds of thousands of people in key states to come out to vote for Trump and disenfranchise many to stay home or vote third party rather than vote for Clinton.
It seems at least statistically plausible that Trump is president today because of these efforts.
Now aside from this all being a "fake news, nothing burger, that isn't illegal, and which Hillary/Obama did far worse, and anyone who cares is just a sore loser", what does it say about our system that it is statistically plausible that a covert foriegn national operation could influence a major election?
If they did, could we ever agree on it long enough to do anything about it?
The electoral college win for Trump was determined by 77,744 votes in key states. In an election where 139,000,000 people voted, that amounts to less than .0005% of the vote. Given the coordinated and extensive efforts by Russian foreign nationals that was detailed in Mueller's indictments, it seems improbable to me that they did not influnce hundreds of thousands of people in key states to come out to vote for Trump and disenfranchise many to stay home or vote third party rather than vote for Clinton.
It seems at least statistically plausible that Trump is president today because of these efforts.
Now aside from this all being a "fake news, nothing burger, that isn't illegal, and which Hillary/Obama did far worse, and anyone who cares is just a sore loser", what does it say about our system that it is statistically plausible that a covert foriegn national operation could influence a major election?
If they did, could we ever agree on it long enough to do anything about it?
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