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Democratic Primaries

thesquanderer

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6. Those numbers are percentages, they don't tell you whether turnout was higher or lower.

Reply to LiberalFighter (Original post)

Sat Feb 29, 2020, 07:31 PM

Feb 2020

For example, if turnout if 2016 was 100 people, and 35% of them were young, you'd have 35 young people turning out; and if turnout today were 1000 people and 28% of them were young, you'd have 280 young people turning out. So in that case, those 35%/28% numbers would be consistent with a 700% increase in young voter turnout!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Maddow pointed out that young voter turnout lower than in 2016 [View all] LiberalFighter Feb 2020 OP

The biggest lie of the campaign season of 2020 is that Bernie is energizing new voters to come out AGeddy Feb 2020 #1

Even with the splinter of the votes he has less than in 2016. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #2

His votes have been down in every state so far. George II Feb 2020 #4

Eggs-actly. And too bad it turned out this way. MFGsunny Feb 2020 #8

What? That can't be true... George II Feb 2020 #3

Their participation has never been higher... Moderateguy Feb 2020 #9

There you go. That is the strategy to use. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #15

That is a concern. guillaumeb Feb 2020 #5

Those numbers are percentages, they don't tell you whether turnout was higher or lower. thesquanderer Feb 2020 #6

Bingo! Downtown Hound Feb 2020 #10

CNN has reported that turnout has been very high. George II Feb 2020 #11

It's a revolution! Squinch Feb 2020 #7

Maybe a lot of people have decided to vote for the Democratic candidate no matter who rickford66 Feb 2020 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #13

I went for a coffee at Barnes & Noble yesterday, defacto7 Feb 2020 #14