2016 Nonvoters, a Key Prize for Biden and Trump, Turn Out in Droves

[brooklynite]

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Source: New York Times

GREENSBURG, Pa. — At 32, Ryan Walsh has never voted in a presidential election. He didn’t identify with either party before this year. But in the spring, he registered as a Republican, and he plans to cast a ballot in person on Tuesday for President Trump.

“I’m petrified of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi getting power and doing all this stuff that’s going to totally destroy the economy,” said Mr. Walsh, who works for a social services agency of state government.

He cited a string of proposals that trouble him — broad tax increases, the Green New Deal, “Medicare for all” — that Mr. Biden has said he opposes. Mr. Walsh does not believe him.

Voters who didn’t show up in 2016 are Mr. Trump’s “secret weapon,” said Mr. Walsh, who lives outside Pittsburgh and works in Westmoreland County, an exurb where the Trump campaign is indeed hoping to expand its margin compared with 2016. Mr. Walsh called polls showing the president trailing “a joke,” adding, “He will do nothing but gain in the areas he won last time.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/politics/pennsylvania-trump-biden-early-voting.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[Cirque du So-What]

1. 'Tis the season

for Dracula stories.


From the same article:

So far, the data shows that more Democratic-leaning voters who didn’t cast ballots in 2016 are turning out than Republican-leaning voters. “Nationally, Democrats have a modeled advantage of 14.5 percent with those non-2016 voters,” Mr. Bonier said.

Is there an aversion to good news ‘round here?

[Harker]

9. If it bleeds it leads...

if it smells it sells.

[SKKY]

2. This is the one demographic that has me the most worries....

...I don't have a sense that anyone knows how they will break and for whom.

[kwolf68]

3. SO

This guy is a "non voter" spitting off the same platitudes and clichés running on FauxNews. Also not accepting current polling? Color me not impressed with this horseshit.

He works in social services? For State Government?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. But apparently not a big turnout in Detroit, projected to be lower than 2008 and 2012. Get woke!

[beachbumbob]

5. lets ignore the secret biden voters? Another hogwash OPINION piece lacking data

and FACTS


this is tiresome

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. He works for a social services agency?

What does he do? Deny claims? Sweep the offices? The guy doesn't have a brain cell working. He's an embarrassment to his state.

[OverBurn]

7. This, a Social Service worker, are you F'ing kidding. Voting for the party that would cut his job.

[moose65]

10. Yeah, right

I always, always question these stories about people who work in government jobs but support Trump. I don't think these people really exist.

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. "broad tax increases, the Green New Deal, "Medicare for all"

You mean repealing the tax cut giveaway to billionaires so they can afford to provide things like infrastructure work and jobs?

Promoting investment in new green energy jobs, and technology, as dwindling fossil fuels destroy our environment?

And working towards a universal medical system that costs you half as much as you pay now?

[JudyM]

11. Locking

Alerted on for being analysis rather than breaking news. Please post in GD instead.