Did the republicans just have a better ground game than democrats?

[RobinA]

55. I Get This Same

sense that a lot of voters don't really get that the things that happen on government actually have an effect on them. Plus, half the time they don't know what's happening. I am 62 and very concerned about the stop in payroll payments to social security and any further attempt to weaken SS. I ask people who vote for Trump if this doesn't worry them a bit. I get blank stares. Some young person will then tell me that they weren't going to get SS anyway. No, not if you keep voting for people who want to gut it. Then there are the people who respond that it isn't true. In other words, fake news. I ask them if they noticed an increase in their paycheck from SS not being withheld or did their employer send them a notice (as mine did) that it would still be withheld. Blank stare again. I guess they just think random things happen that aren't tied to anything they might have control over.