re: #126 ObserverArt

I’m just seeing this, so it may have already been explained. I’m not a math guy, so consider this in common man language…keep’n it simple as I can…which isn’t easy. Numbers people; go easy on me.

It’s the proportion of those that vote.

Generally Republican voters turn out much higher percentages of numbers in a given election. Let’s say 70% of their voters turn out most normal elections. Typically Democrats turn out somewhere around 35% of their voters.

But, the key is…Democrats also have a majority of numbers in the population. They just don’t get out to vote in non-presidential elections. Sometimes they don’t make it out in those either.

Now you have an election that has higher numbers involved. Where are those numbers coming from? From the voters that don’t usually vote which is that huge pool of Democrats.

Since the vote is always close in the range of 10 points, now you have more Democrats involved from a bigger pool of voters. Republicans also turn out more, but they are drawing on the last of their numbers.

Bigger turnout means now you have activated a larger percentage of Democrats from a majority of the citizens.

85% of Republicans voting can get beat by 65% of the Democrats and make all the difference in the results.

well done.

in summary, more people like Democratic positions
if only they’d all vote all the time…