2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Give this some thought if you're concerned about Trump vs Clinton. [View all]apnu
(8,753 posts)America has a terrible track record getting eligible citizens to the voting booth.
In 2008, there were something like 225.5 million people eligible to vote, 131.3 million of them actually showed up. Only 58% of eligible Americans went to the polls in that historic election. And that election is considered a large turn out, with large numbers of youth being involved. 42% of Americans stayed home that year. 2012 was worse, 55% showed up at the polls.
You're putting a lot of words and presumptions in my mouth that I never said. Straw-man arguments will not win you the day.
You've made a lot of assumptions with no data to back up. Most of my friends are independent and progressive. Half are for Bernie and half are for Hillary. You've got no data to say what the independent group as a whole supports.