2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forummerrily
(45,251 posts)msongs
(67,381 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)To the swarm already replying to this, Bernie Butter on brockoli is too unappealing. Not biting.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)at ralllies can't get out and vote for him then he doesn't deserve to win.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Meaning before the AP called it?
At any rate, there is no evidence that Bernie supporters were any less inclined to vote than Hillary supporters. In fact, there is no evidence that voter turnout was down at all.
I tend to think that Hillary was hurt the most. Sanders supporters still turned out to make their statement.
I could just as easily point out that New Mexico closed a lot and argue that was because a lack of early voting and the early AP call.
Of course, we don't know for sure. But either way, it is silly IMO to attribute the early call to a shift of more than a point or two. The result in CA looks like a landslide.
Retrograde
(10,132 posts)A large proportion of the voters - over half - are permanent vote-by-mail voters. They got their ballots automatically in early May. Voters can also vote early in person at their county registrar's office, or, in some counties, other locations.
I haven't found the information for the few other counties I looked at, but the official website for the Santa Clara County registrar (that's Silicon Valley) shows that a third of the mail-in ballots were received as of yesterday. As long as they're postmarked by today, mail-in ballots will still be accepted over the next few days. And for some reason, a lot of people like to get a mail ballot and drop it off at a polling place.
Renew Deal
(81,852 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)RandySF
(58,670 posts)You don't need to be old to get a mail-on ballot.
msongs
(67,381 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)SF, dang, thought he'd at least take that!
book_worm
(15,951 posts)and still win California due to her big lead in early voting.