Voter types unique to certain elections

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

Anarcho-Statism mentioned this on my question about 1936, saying progressive (not praire populist) Republicans who supported Social Security and unemployment benefits but found New Deal programs to be inefficient fit the bill.

I guess Trump/Biden voters who found Hillary Clinton to be corrupt and Perot/Clinton ones who saw Bill Clinton and HW as Tweedledum and Tweedledee were examples.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

In the 2016 Democratic primaries there was a certain type of progressive Democrat that was anti-Hillary but otherwise a petty standard progressive. Most supported Bernie then as the lesser evil but in 2020 broke for Warren, Biden and others.

[ModerateRadical]

The entire 1916 election revolved around Wilson winning over a bloc of voters that basically only existed during that presidential election cycle. By 1920, the Great War was over, so average Americans weren't going to the polls with the specter of a hypothetical war looming over them. The isolationists were largely moving into the Republican fold by 1920, and many of the anti-war groups who persisted in their actions after the US entered WW1 ended up being swept away in the wake of the Espionage and Sedition Acts, as well as the Red Scare and Palmer raids.

[darklordoftech]

In 1972, people who voted for Nixon because they thought McGovern was a hippy and/or were afraid of school bussing.

In 2000, young voters who voted for Bush or Nader because they were afraid of censorship.

In 2016, people who voted for Trump because they thought he was to the left of Clinton.

[Sumner 1868]

In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt got a record vote in the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington because of just how popular his conservation policies were.

[Agonized-Statism]

Millions of super low propensity voters who turned out in 2020, especially those against the lockdowns and the QAnon followers.