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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Wait for the numbers in WA, you might be surprised
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Wait to see where the financial markets are at the end of the week before you declare any candidate dead
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@Pinboard already noted that the same low voting rate applies in vote-by-mail states, so long lines at polling places doesn’t explain it.
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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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True. There are universal friction barriers to voting, not just for the young (if you think it's inconvenient to vote as a college student, wait until you have a full time job that keeps you occupied from 8 am to 6 pm and 2 young kids).
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