Democrats Have A Huge Voter Turnout Problem

[GoLeft TV]

The best way to make sure we have a Republican in the White House is by staying home on election day. And if the turnout that we’ve seen during the primaries is any indication, the Democrats are about to hand Republicans a victory in November. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

[merrily]

1. And Republicans have been showing up for primaries. Recipe for epic fail, so far.

Quick. Punch someone to your left because that's obviously how to solve the problem.

[LiberalArkie]

4. I have been wondering if perhaps the US has become a rightwing country.

It is hard to tell from the primaries except more people are turning out for Republican primaries. But at the same time Democratic primaries have in some places run out of ballots. Maybe a lot of the Democratic voters (God) have no preference of Democratic candidate.

I guess we will not know really anything until the "fat lady sings".

[merrily]

6. It wasn't when I made this post in April of 2015.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12777036

In my opinion, the explanation for high turn out on the red side is obvious: They have what appears to be a genuine contest, they have candidates they either care about electing or care about stopping,* and they are coming off 8 years of a President who is not of their party, just as we were coming off 8 years of Bush in 2008.


*Even Democrats seem to care about stopping Trump and Cruz. They've been crossing party lines to vote for Kasich.

[hollysmom]

2. with the third way and all,

I think a lot of people don't want to vote republican so they just don't vote,
thrid way = agree with republicans on all but social issues.

[desmiller]

3. i agree. A lot of us Bernies refuse to be caught dead voting for Hillary.

That's bad enough, but if the turn-outs are like the 1st half of the primaries, Hillary will politically be in dire peril. Any Extremist of Hillary's should understand that turnouts are important.

[onehandle]

5. Primary Turnout Means Nothing For The General Election:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511524785

[merrily]

7. And 538 has been so spot on this time around, too!

[MisterP]

8. 11 Governors, 13 Senators, 69 Reps, 913 state seats

1 presidency

judging by the outcomes, the party prefers to lose elections, so it can keep blaming the voters

what else would they be doing?

[felix_numinous]

9. The direct result of neo liberal and neo con politicians

who represent big money, American people are invisible to them, so this is essentially a vote of no confidence.

[jtuck004]

10. "The best way to make sure we have a Republican in the White House is by" screwing over working

people for 8 years to help make your Bank$ter/Jihadist donors wealthy, and then expecting them to come vote for you without running someone a fair number may not vote for. lol.

Not the voters - that's just victim blaming.

[Blue State Bandit]

11. Thank the Clinton/DNC for that.