Recent poll shows that 50 percent of chronic non-voters are absolutely certain they’ll turn out in November 2020, but the partisan affiliation is split. Will a surge of previously apathetic voters change anything? How is it possible in such politically-divisive times that half of the chronic non-voters won’t turnout even if the choice is Donald Trump vs. Bernie Sanders.
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6 replies on “2020 Surge of Chronic Non-Voters Could Sway Election, But to Whom?”
Why would you require everyone to vote (Australia), you are just asking for the uninformed to vote, which is just bad, at least in the United States we have fewer uniformed voters which is better.
My fondest hope is that the Dems burn Bernie once again, like they did in 2016, and that he then runs as a third party candidate, thus splitting the Dems votes between the official Dem candidate and the Bernie Bros!
Would be sweet justice, but on the other hand, I also wish that the Dems do give Bernie the nod, so that the 2020 election becomes a referendum on whether or not America wants to be a Socialist country.
Either way the Dems decide to go with this, I feel confident that the outcome of the 2020 election will provide a seminal lesson that will be reference long into the future!!!
I cannot believe a Democrat would ever vote for Trump. Just look at who they voted for at the State of the Union speech! The cornerstone of the DNC platform is the right to kill the unborn! Any person with a (D) by their name is unquestionably a hypocrite if they vote for pro-life Trump. Killing the unborn is the keystone of being a Democrat. As long as there are more registered Democrats than Republicans, this divided nation will teeter on the edge of collapse.
I am not proud to admit that, after voting all my life, I did not vote in the 2016 election. After Obama won in 2012, I was convinced that the election was rigged, and I didn’t want to be a part of that. But you better believe I’ll be voting this year! I wonder if there are others like me, who were afraid to even hope for a Trump victory in 2016. And who will be adding to the votes for Trump this year.
Same here. I felt so hopeless and went to bed early Tuesday evening. But on my drive to work Wednesday am, it felt like the skies were bright at 5:15 am. You can bet I will go to the polls in November!
I still think the true result of 2016 is to show that people don’t really tell pollsters the truth. I also don’t believe that people who lean right or have a minimal interest in politics; those two groups, don’t answer polls. I have only ever sat through one poll and it was so that I could explain to the young woman calling on behalf of Hillary, what law she had broken and why she belonged in jail.
When they call now, I politely inform them I don’t have time for their survey.
People to whom politics is a religion I am sure love answering polls.
This is why polls skew left.
And demonstrates the lack of value of polling.
This doesn’t include the fact that national polls are useless in an Electoral System.