Footnote before someone calls me on this: Yes, I'm well aware not all 171 million people can or will actually vote. But that number's unlikely to scale for geographic reasons, so the ratios attached still should be valid here.

If that list seems absurdly long, then you'd understand the point. It's not just a few cities. It's most of the ones Americans can think of as the biggest ones, and a few they probably wouldn't. And of course, that's not even approaching the assumption they'd all vote the same way. /endthread

Source for the numbers: www.statista.com/statistics/1...

...St. Louis, San Antonio, Portland, Austin, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Columbus, Indianapolis, Nashville, Cleveland, San Jose, Virginia Beach, Jacksonville, Providence, Milwaukee, and Raleigh. That's 42 cities and their suburbs.

You know how many metro areas it'd actually take to hit that mark? New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Miami, Phoenix, Boston, Riverside, San Francisco, Detroit, Seattle, Minneapolis, Tampa, San Diego, Denver, Baltimore, Orlando, Charlotte...

They list a few big cities - New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Franciso - as if those by themselves make up a population majority. They don't - those and their metro areas are roughly 50 million total, a far cry from the 171 million necessary to reach 50% of the total US population.

That's correct! Point for Anne. And don't worry, I crossposted this to another network and got a similarly late response so it still counts.

My friend Geoff later said "Umm actually, Ify isn't the original host", and he is correct, but in accordance with the rules, he only gets the point if no one else can be more specific.

Arnold and Helga (Hey Arnold).

Also, Fig and Caputo (Orange is the New Black).