According to @ElectProject data, turnout for the 2018 midterms is the highest since 1912, which is just an incredible shift considering turnout for the 2014 midterms had been the *lowest* since World War II. The volatility of the electorate right now cannot be underestimated.
Aren't there potentially "aberrational" qualities to every midterm cycle? Example: there was no GOP senate candidate in CA this year, which may have depressed turnout somewhat. Fact remains that 2014 was a significant ebb.
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States without Senate elections in 2014 included: CA, FL, NY, PA & OH. Senate elections in these states would have likely have put the 2014 national midterm turnout rate at the average for the past three decades
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So what’s your basic contention? That the “lowest turnout since WWII” descriptor is analytically useless?
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