I find it more of a problem to lose with high turnout

[MoonlitKnight]

Than for the polls to be wrong.

High turnout should mean more democratic wins.

[Proud liberal 80]

1. Agree

[pimpbot]

2. I think we can put the high turnout better dem results to bed

Both bases were motivated this year, its coming down to the middle of the road non-political types and how they voted.

There also seemed to be a myth that 2016 dump voters were going to stay home.

[BusyBeingBest]

3. The problem is that media insisted that Dems were really running up the score

for weeks ahead of time with early voting, and basically signaled to Repubs to get out there on Election Day or they'd lose for sure, so they did.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

4. unless they cheated...

How are we at 10:19 on election night with 238,000 dead and el presidente does not care and We as a country have not flipped any state yet....WTF is wrong with people

[unitedwethrive]

13. I'm right there with you. It makes no sense that the results are essentially the same as 2016

with everything that has gone on since. Have Americans ever reacted like this before?

[LizBeth]

15. +1

[JT45242]

14. Amen

I have been shouting the same thing all night...then I realize how many people are ok with it because it is mostly brown people from red states or people from blue states.

Seriously...how could anyone want another 4 years of this.

[madeup64]

5. Yeah that's the hardest part to believe

More votes should have meant Biden bigger victory. And you kept reading about how the 18 to 29 vote share was a lot more than it was and people who didn't vote in 2016 heavily-favored Biden. Frustrating to say the least.

[Marie Marie]

6. Guess there really was a large amount of "shy" Trump voters.

He had a much better turn out than I thought possible. I knew that his die hard base would vote but these numbers go beyond them.

[Codeine]

7. People underestimate how many people

support Trump, and just how fervent that support is.

[SweetieD]

8. I agree. It is worrisome. I think people underestimated that Trump voters were fired up

To vote. They actually believe him when he whines about how unfair everything is to him, they think covid is a hoax, they think he is going to fight pedophiles, they were also spurred on by the protests this year ( this must be being pushed on conservative media).

They feel like Trump is pro military, pro police, for religious freedom, for family values etc. ....Barf.....but I literally saw some crazy person with cardboard signs all over their van saying this with Trump 2020 stickers. There is a segment that Trump has awakened and gotten them stirred up to vote. Social media is making this messaging worse.

[intrepidity]

9. Occams razor says cheating happened nt

[Ztolkins]

10. Why should it mean more democratic wins?

Country is nearly 50/50 and much different than it was in 2008

[JT45242]

16. Trump has never had a 50 percent approval

How does he get a higher percentage of the vote than the greatest number if people who thought he was doing a good job...

[Violet_Crumble]

11. I'm struggling to grasp that so many Americans are so anti-democratic and mean...

Regardless of who wins, I think the ideal of American freedom and liberty is dead for the rest of the world.

[Hoyt]

12. Do we know for sure the final turnout is significantly higher. I know early voting was, but was

final turnout higher than 2016 considering population increase? I haven't seen any stats.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. There was a slightly higher percentage of evangelical...

... white voters than last time, if the CNN exit polls were accurate -- 27% in 2020 vs. 26% in 2016.

They voted for Trump at a lower percentage this time, but still by a large margin at 76% to 23%.

They were 27% of all voters, and white voters were 65% of all voters (higher than their population percentage). So evangelicals comprised about 27/65 = 41.5% of all white voters!

The other white voters gave Biden nearly 60% of their vote!

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results