In 2012 turnout was about 127m voters. In 2008, turnout was 130m. This year it looks like it might not reach 120m (CNN’s vote tracker currently has it at about 110m).
I said months ago that if it turned out to be a low turnout election that all bets were off. Well, it looks like it was a low turnout election. Can’t say I’m particularly shocked given both nominees had historically bad favorability numbers.
I don’t know what this says about the country, the parties, or the nominees. But I can’t imagine this result say anything good about any of them.