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Originally Posted by potter
Actually it's not. Statistically republicans have the same amount of voter turn out every election. There wasn't more or less this election, there was the same old number of republican voters as usual voting their party ticket. The only reason Trump won is because a fuck ton of Democrats didn't vote at all. The number of votes this election was way low, and it was all from missing D votes - not because the Rs has some uptick in turnout.
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"R" or "D" - those are just more labels for people. Stop treating people as just another tick in a box, or another face to a color, etc.
The fact is maybe many "D", as you say, didn't turn out to vote because they are sick of the "D" party bullshit and yet they've been trained for a lifetime to be reflexively anti-"R".
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing and is the most likely cause for low voter turnout.
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