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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 09:43 PM Apr 2016

Democratic turnout has only increased in states Bernie has won...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-26/not-interested-45-million-voters-sit-out-democratic-primaries

Not Interested: 4.5 Million Voters Sit Out Democratic Primaries


Back in 2008, as Obama battled Clinton, a whopping 23,715,866 people voted in primaries and caucuses nationwide in the states that have already voted this cycle. Fast forward to the next time there’s a Democratic primary for president, this year (since Obama was the incumbent president seeking reelection the primaries in 2012 were largely perfunctory), and turnout has dropped off significantly. Just 19,155,825 people have voted thus far in primaries and caucuses this cycle, a decrease of 4,560,041 voters or 19.23 percent.

The steep drop off is so significant on the Democratic side that the vast majority of states saw drops in voter participation in Democratic primaries and caucuses. The following contests saw less voters participate on the Democratic side in the primaries and caucuses than 2008’s contests: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Utah, Wisconsin, Vermont, American Samoa, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Washington state, and Wyo

Only a handful of states have seen increases in participation on the Democratic side, including Arizona, Michigan, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas and Maine. With the exception of Arizona, Sanders won—and Clinton lost—each of those contests. That means the likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, has only increased Democratic primary votes in one of the states she won this cycle as compared with 2008’s primary turnout. Every other state she has won this year has seen less turnout from last go-around.
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Democratic turnout has only increased in states Bernie has won... (Original Post) amborin Apr 2016 OP
From of all places breitbart LiberalArkie Apr 2016 #1
kill the messenger? amborin Apr 2016 #2
Yep.. The HRC folks live in such a bubble and only believe info from inside the bubble. LiberalArkie Apr 2016 #3

LiberalArkie

(15,719 posts)
3. Yep.. The HRC folks live in such a bubble and only believe info from inside the bubble.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:53 PM
Apr 2016

They really believe that the Bernie voters did not show up to vote. Just because their party was changed, or certain voting irregualties took place had nothing to do with it. Record turnouts and record lines, but also record number of people turned away. HRC people do not correlate facts very easily.

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