The turnout in Kentucky was up 150%. That bodes well for the rest of the country. Turnout is key

[yellowdogintexas]

11. There is a third thing to figure in to this:

Many voters will only vote the top line on the ballot. SO in KY's case voters just picked someone for governor and didn't bother with anything else. There are many reasons people do this.. but mostly it is because they are more familiar with the top race on the ballot.

THis even holds true on a primary ballot. In 2016 many voters just voted that presidential line and did not vote in the other primaries on that ballot. We could tell when looking at our precinct reports so we might have 1000 ballots cast total and all 1000 of them did vote for president - but when you run the tallies on the other races and compare numbers you might find only 600 votes were cast in total for the state rep or state senate race on that ballot (for example)

I hope this makes sense, I am winding down from my long long day at the polls for the Great Texas Constitutional Amendment Vote. Our turnout was pretty high for this type of election I was shocked.