2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please stop with this b***shit that the Democrats are out of touch with the voting population [View all]Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)74% of ALL eligible voters either stayed home or voted for someone other then Clinton. 74% of all eligible voters not wanting to vote for the Democratic nominee isn't "in touch" with the average voter.
"According to the United States Election Project, nearly half of eligible voters (46.9 percent of approximately 231,556,622 people) did not vote in the 2016 election. And while not the lowest voter turnout in history (that honor goes to the 1996 election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, with 49 percent of eligible Americans abstaining from voting), the numbers are much lower than they were in both 2012 and 2008, particularly among Democrats."
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8265143/almost-half-eligible-voters-did-not-vote-election-2016/
Raw numbers from http://www.electproject.org/2016g
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