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You didn't mention the largest voting block, voters who don't strongly identify with either party.
by ChrisAntaki 9y ago
You didn't mention the largest voting block, voters who don't strongly identify with either party.
- viridian 9y agoUnfortunately that voting block doesn't line up with reality, as least from the stats I know for the presidential elections. A given voter that voted for party X's candidate four years ago, if they vote again, will vote for party X's candidate about 92% of the time. This means that in the pool of 'likely voters', the two parties are realistically fighting over 8% of hearts and minds.
- ajmurmann 9y agoThere is another caveat: 8% in ~12 states. Greatest democracy in the world!
- lurr 9y agoThen why didn't clinton win easily?
- specialist 9y agoHRC got nearly 3m more votes. That ain't nothing.
- netheril96 9y agoSwing states, where the votes matter the most, have been won by less margins.
- specialist 9y agoThe largest voting block are the people who don't.
- dragonwriter 9y agoVoters who claim not to strongly identify with either party vote as consistently with one party as voters who do strongly identify with a party, at least, from research I saw several years back.