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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I'm wondering why your and Hank's perspective allows you to think your votes were in the class of votes that won this election for Obama when there are so many others who voted the same way for other reasons.
TM
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Just this. You* will vote for a Dem in 2016 and 2020. You don't know who it is yet, but you will. 30% or 35% or 40% of the country knows now they will vote for a Dem (assuming they do vote). Then there is 30% or 35% or 40% that will vote for an R in each of those elections. It doesn't matter much who the candidate is. After the primaries are over most people in both those camps close ranks. you may not like the candidate, and that may lower turnout, but a solid Dem is not pulling an R lever.
The remaining 20% move one way or another to decide who wins. The reasons they move are what the elections are about.
*I mean the royal (or whatever is the right word) you, not you personally. Perhaps you will change at some time, but the bulk of the solid Dems who always vote Dem will vote Dem every time.
