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In reply to the discussion: Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat [View all]rocktivity
(44,571 posts)25. "Voters who did not vote in 2016 but voted in 2020
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accounted for roughly 1 in 6 voters, and they broke markedly for Biden, especially in the 'Flipped' states. 1 in 10 voters say they decided their vote in the final month of the campaign, and contrary to conventional wisdom, they broke in Bidens favor..."
1 in 6 averages out to nearly 17 per cent. In 2016, 129 million people voted Democrat or Republican; in 2020, 155 million people did. That's an increase of 26 million, which averages out to -- WAIT FOR IT!!! -- nearly seventeen per cent more!
I love the smell of vindication in the morning.
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Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat [View all]
brooklynite
Feb 2021
OP
He didn't even have to do *well* with handling COVID, he just had to make an EFFORT.
bearsfootball516
Feb 2021
#1
Exactly! The American People Are Remarkably Forgiving - And Remarkably Stupid As Well.
panfluteman
Feb 2021
#26
And if he did see it, read it and could understand it, we know the next verse - "Fake News"...
yonder
Feb 2021
#13
It's also a sure bet Trump hasn't read the report if he isn't the hero of every paragraph
gratuitous
Feb 2021
#23
What frightens me is all his fascist policies that were ho-hum to the public
bucolic_frolic
Feb 2021
#11
Well, yeah. Plus he conned many Cuban voters into supporting him by ginning up fear
PatrickforO
Feb 2021
#12
Interesting to me the favorable/unfavorable with regard to Kamala Harris
GreenEyedLefty
Feb 2021
#19
Telling the truth to themselves & not Americans is the foundation of a bad, bad political party.
ancianita
Feb 2021
#21
A vote flip of just 22,000 votes from Biden to Trump in 3 states (AZ, GA, WI) combined
progree
Feb 2021
#27
Trump's callous disregard and indifference to the virus and the suffering of the Nation
badboy67
Feb 2021
#29