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Election Night, Thread 3: Some Thoughts on What We're Seeing Tonight

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KGxvi11/08/2016 10:25:21 pm PST

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.