Some Pennsylvania Democrats regret not voting in 2016. They say they'll be sure to cast a ballot in

[applegrove]

Some Pennsylvania Democrats regret not voting in 2016. They say they’ll be sure to cast a ballot in 2020.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-pennsylvania-democrats-regret-not-voting-in-2016-they-say-theyll-be-sure-to-cast-a-ballot-in-2020/2019/08/23/e2d4f4c0-a1b0-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html

By Laura Hughes at The Washington Post

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In Pennsylvania, exit polls showed, the percentage of the vote cast by African Americans, who overwhelmingly sided with Clinton, dropped from 13 percent in 2012 to 10 percent in 2016. White voters, who went dramatically for Trump, rose from 78 percent to 81 percent of the electorate.

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Arresting the slide in black turnout and cutting into Republican advantages among white and rural voters is seen by Democrats as key to flipping Pennsylvania back into their electoral column. The same is true in Wisconsin and Michigan, two other historically Democratic states that went for Trump in 2016.

“I think people in Philadelphia understand that we can determine the presidential election in many ways because we can determine how Pennsylvania goes,” Waller said in an interview with The Washington Post. Trump’s margin of victory in the state was narrow: Just 44,000 of the 6.2 million voters turned the state from blue to red.



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[Joe941]

1. I don't want to hear about it.

[applegrove]

2. Why not?

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Philly, Detroit, and Milwaukee are pivotal.

[kimbutgar]

4. And all three states later voted for Democratic governors

Because of that I think MF45 will lose those in 2020.

[Aristus]

5. I hope they're all calling their local registrar of voters to ensure they're still on the rolls.

They voluntarily sat out the election in 2016. I hope they're happy, because they're in the process of having their names purged from the rolls of voters.

[elocs]

6. When Democrats choose to self suppress their votes, bad things happen.

In Milwaukee country alone, 55,000 fewer people voted than did in 2012 and 2/3 of that number would historically have been expected to vote for the Democratic candidate, enough to have defeated Trump in Wisconsin. I'm sure the same was true in Michigan as well which was much closer than Wisconsin.

Everybody votes this time, no excuses, no pouting or purity tests, no matter who the candidate may be. Come election day no matter what the Russians may have done or anything else, the only thing left in our power to do is to get out and vote.

[CanonRay]

7. This

[IronLionZion]

8. I would hope that our side is way more energized this time

High turnout wins it for us. I'm convinced there are more of us than them.

[Buckeyeblue]

9. Why did the Clinton campaign allow that to happen?

Did they go for too big of a win instead of making sure they just won? I agree that 3 cities made all of the difference. It makes me sick when I read these types of articles.