Turnout for 2018 midterm election now exceeds 49%, highest rate in 104 years

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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Another way of putting this: It is easily the highest midterm turnout since the beginning of universal suffrage.

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The turnout for the 2018 midterm election now exceeds 49%, 115 million voters, which makes it the highest turnout rate for a midterm in 104 years

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[Mystery sage]

1. Wow

It's almost like they were trying to get rid of someone.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Awesome. Now, we need to move some blue people to red states.

We have way more Dems than we need in some places. Need to spread some out to win Senate seats and electoral college. Some Californians and New Yorkers need to move to Texas, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, NDakota, Indiana and Tennessee.....lol..

[LBM20]

3. Still WAY too many people not voting. Better, but not good enough. Half not voting? Not great.

[mucifer]

4. the sad part is they picked up seats in the senate. We always think more votes means more dems

We have to work more on convincing the repubs to switch sides. We are not like them. We don't value suppressing votes

[Sancho]

5. Too bad that the cheating is so rampant that even with the turnout, many votes won't be counted...

here in Florida, it's impossible to depend on the results.

I suspect the polls are correct: all the Democratic candidates for state-wide and national office actually won (again), but probably none of them will take the seat.

We worked hard to GOTV, and stand up for women, gun-control, immigration reform, and health care. We need to stand up for verifiable elections...

[redstatebluegirl]

6. I am glad but isn't is sad that 49 percent breaks a 100 year old record?