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They also are clustered in coastal cities and votes there are worth less than votes elsewhere for reasons. I wonder how much of turnout downturn is just ration

• JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > votes there are worth less than votes elsewhere for reasons 139 million Americans voted in 2016's general election [1]. Of that, 34 million were millennials, or 49% of millennial eligible voters [2]. 69% of Boomers voted [2]. If a similar fraction of millennials voted, we'd have had 48 million votes [a]. That would bring our share of the vote to 31% [b], the same as boomers [c]. Geographic effects act on the margins. Bringing 14 million additional voters to the polls will change outcomes and change legislative priorities regardless of how they are distributed. [1] http://www.electproject.org/2016g http://www.electproject.org/2016g [2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/31/millennials-and-gen-xers-outvoted-boomers-and-older-generations-in-2016-election/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/31/millennials-... [a] (34 x 10^6 / 0.49) 0.69* [b] (48 x 10^6 - 34 x 10^6)/(48 x 10^6 - 34 x 10^6 + 139 x 10^6) [c] 48.1 x 10^6 / (48 x 10^6 - 34 x 10^6 + 139 x 10^6)