AN63093
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« on: August 29, 2017, 02:53:46 AM » |
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« edited: August 29, 2017, 02:55:39 AM by AN63093 »
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Nationally, you are correct.
However, turnout was down in some critical areas. MI is a good example of this- Clinton was about 76k votes off of Obama from '12 in Detroit. Now some of these voters may have flipped to Trump, but I would suspect not that many. Trump's votes were only about 15k higher than Romney.
So even if every one of Trump's new voters flipped from Obama, that doesn't account for 60k votes. For whatever reason, they didn't show. Some of that would be accounted by the fact that Wayne County is losing population but it doesn't account for the entire 60k.
Had those voters showed up, MI would've gone D.
This is just one example. So I think that although the election wasn't low turnout in general, it was lower in some key areas that may have lost the election for the Dems, and that's probably what gave birth to this myth.
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