2016 Postmortem
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(41,916 posts)Fantastic!
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)Repukes - 6.9 M
Democrats - 5.3 M
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)I shouldn't worry because they mostly vote republican anyway?
Serious question. If these voters in Red States won't affect the outcome of the general election, why should they have a say in picking the nominee of our party?
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)I make no predictions about the general election. I am simply stating the obvious; Red states will have larger Republican voter turnout because, well, there are more republicans there.
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)But do vote in general elections.
Look, the South is still hostile territory to any Democratic candidate.
For the moment.
But Trump is making it very, very hard for independents and even a majority of Republicans to vote for their party's nominee.
Sure, Trump is winning, but he's winning with pluralities, not majorities of the voters in his own party.
Hope this helps.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)And more candidates brings out more people.
Ace Rothstein
(3,099 posts)It has been trending blue over the last 10 years but there were almost 250k more votes cast in the Republican primary.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This is one of the turn-out secrets that people are ignoring. In a state that goes 65-35 for Clinton, the election is not particularly contested.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)for and against Trump. At this point it has very little to do with us. They're in the middle of a civil war, with more than just a couple of factions battling for control of the party, or chaos as the case may be. I just hope traditional conservativism ultimately prevails.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)We have two decent candidates that most Dems outside of the DU bubble like quite a lot.