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Vidal

(642 posts)
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:55 AM May 2019

Blue Tsunami! Massive Democratic Voter Turnout Expected in 2020!!

An expert is predicting that the 2020 presidential election will have the highest voter turnout since at least 1916, Axios reports. Michael McDonald, a political science associate professor at the University of Florida said 2020 voter turnout could be as high as 67 percent. McDonald said the prediction partially comes from Trump, who is driving unhappy voters to the polls. He also said that the number of Trump voters is not increasing.

"It doesn’t seem to be the candidates who were running in 2018; there wasn’t hyper competition driving turnout; some states made it easier to vote, but that can’t explain it because the increase was happening in every state," McDonald said. “So, the only explanation is Donald Trump because he’s the only major factor that’s changed in our politics since 2014."

McDonald predicted that young people, people of color and low-income people, who typically vote Democratic, will likely vote in larger numbers next year.

BAM!! Trump is going down in 2020, bigly.

Read More: https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-election-turnout-predictions-democrats-143cced4-cda7-4665-9fc3-911387416119.html

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Blue Tsunami! Massive Democratic Voter Turnout Expected in 2020!! (Original Post) Vidal May 2019 OP
Let's hope so! Wounded Bear May 2019 #1
Women will ride that wave pecosbob May 2019 #2
Great thought Vidal May 2019 #6
If the GOP see that coming, they'll gas Trump nt Jarqui May 2019 #3
LOL Vidal May 2019 #4
That's the first, key element for 2020 gratuitous May 2019 #5

pecosbob

(7,533 posts)
2. Women will ride that wave
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:13 AM
May 2019

I believe there is a wave coming that will dwarf the 2018 midterms. The recent anti-abortion legislation in Talibama and elsewhere should doom the GOP in 2020. I also think we'll see the most blatant GOP attempts at election fraud to date (the usual places...Ohio, Florida, perhaps Pennsylvania and Michigan). We'll also see outside interference. Still, it will be for naught. Women will be the agents of the GOP's demise, and rightly so.

#GOTV #Talibama

Late Edit* I just wish the Senate picture looked better. I think it will remain a ball-breaker for Dems for some time.

 

Vidal

(642 posts)
6. Great thought
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:24 AM
May 2019

Yes, you are no doubt correct in your analysis.

I see a continuing huge backlash due to anti-women/anti-abortion policies of the GOP.

BTW: other states where election fraud, to restrict voting rights include: North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. That's the first, key element for 2020
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:23 AM
May 2019

In yesterday's Kentucky primary, Democratic turnout was more than 80% of what it was for the 2018 general. THAT is a motivated electorate.

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