I know I keep harping on this, but I just can't understand it. Sanders's movement is real and passionate, so was Howard Dean's, so was a raft of others. But between the under-30 voter and the voting booth falls The Shadow
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People are full of just-so stories about how the kids have classes to attend, and the lines for voting are 10 hours long, they don't have a steady address, and any other excuse you can mention, but this age pattern among *registered voters* holds true in vote-by-mail states too
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I imagine this must be incredibly frustrating to the young supporters who would move heaven and earth to win these votes, if they were available. But the bitter, bitter lesson in American politics is that they're called non-voters for a reason.
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Didn't Texas have some people waiting 7 hours to vote? I don't know what your definition of "very easy" is, but that seems like a pretty big obstacle to me.
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Like I said in the thread, the low turnout is just as low in states where you vote by mail.
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The fact that precincts at universities have 4 hour lines and have run out of english ballots leads me to believe that targeted voter suppression is a lot easier than people think it is.
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Do you have data on what percentage of rally-goers don't vote?
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I have no idea. The only piece of anectodal evidence I have is that a third of Bernie's attendees at a Sioux City rally I went to were from out of state, and so ineligible to vote in Iowa.
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Hopelessness.
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So why do they gain all this hope in their forties and fifties?
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