A person who reads things would have seen this kind of thing https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/midterm-election-turnout-isnt-so-different-from-presidential-year-turnout/ … https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/the-great-midterm-divide/380784/ … https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/where-are-millennials-midterm-voters-skew-old-n241216 … https://newrepublic.com/article/78875/the-old-the-young-and-2010 … https://www.economist.com/united-states/2014/05/17/older-whiter-righter … https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/putting-their-eggs-in-the-wrong-midterm-basket/ …
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I'm not sure how that list of mostly nonpartisan sources doing factual analysis of how midterm turnout affects Democrats supports your case. That aside, "progressives talk more about low midterm turnout when it's not canceled out by anti-incumbent swing" is not much of a gotcha.
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In 2018 I frequently had to talk down fellow Democrats who were convinced that weak turnout in midterms would prevent a blue wave. The anti-incumbent swing is a lot stronger. And it didn't hurt that Americans really loathe the Republican president. Turnout was fine this time.
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