Democrats organize to fight back

[Eric the Green]

(02-03-2017, 08:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-03-2017, 06:35 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

(02-03-2017, 05:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I dunno how that follows; almost 1/2 of the electorate ALWAYS stays home.

-- you got a source on that? According to 538 it's more like between 30 & 40%

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/vot...inton-won/

ps, they better not impeach the Donald bcuz then we'll get stuck with Pence

I'm not with you on that, because I still think a Democrat is loads better. I know, you don't. But come 2020, Pence would be much easier to beat, and that's going by my scores too. And obviously, Trump is proving to be worse even than Pence would be. I admit, I thought Trump would probably be better than Cruz. I was wrong, and Mr. X was right; Trump is at least equally bad and probably worse than Cruz.

I am no longer shy about calling Drump a fascist. He's Mussolini reincarnate. Any candidate would be better. ANY candidate.

I don't remember an election where much more than half the people voted. It just doesn't happen. Maybe up to 60%, sometimes, but not much more than that, even then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turn..._elections
The Bipartisan Policy Center has stated that turnout for 2012 was 57.5 percent of the eligible voters, which they claim was a decline from 2008. They estimate that as a percent of eligible voters, turn out was: 2000, 54.2%; in 2004 60.4%; 2008 62.3%; and 2012 57.5%.[11] These were the same figures as given by the Center for the Study of the American Electorate.[12]

Of course, as the chart shows, the percentage of voting age population who vote, as opposed to eligible voters, is even lower; about 3% lower. With our huge prison population (the most anywhere, at least in the developed world) and restrictions on felons voting, many (mostly black and poor) voters are excluded from eligibility.

According to this site:
http://www.electproject.org/2016g
The turnout was 59% of eligible voters, and 54% of voting age population, in 2016; higher than 2012 in the former stat.