In Montana: Trump: 279k Hillary: 177k Gianforte: 189k Quist: 166k Most Hillary voters stuck with Quist. Almost 100k Trump voters dropped.
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this statistic merely illustrates how little most people care about primaries
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Weird explanation for the Democrat getting almost as many votes as Hillary.
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I think that's because Trump voters feel like they've already won...which means we have a big hill to climb to sway back to intellectualism
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Speculative, but ok
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Don't disagree but it's worth mentioning that it wasn't a presidential election so likely a lot fewer people turned out due to laziness
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That affect seems to have affected trump voters drastically more than Hillary voters
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Maybe. We don't have enough information to determine that IMO.
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I think you're injecting more uncertainty into those numbers than is warranted. There's some questions, but they're stark.
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I just don't think they're overly surprising. Non-Trump voters are very vocal/political right now. Makes sense a higher % would go vote rn
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Touché. But having grown up in MT I think the results of an off-cycle election as a prognostication tool are overblown.
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Less prognostication, more response to the people freaking out about people voting for the Republican.
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Ah. In that case I agree - not super sensible to wring hands over people who always have and always will vote Republican.
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I appreciate the optimism, but it's tough to compare apples to apples with a special election.
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They usually have low turnout, but I'd venture the high proportion of Dem votes were people looking to express their anger.
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That said, the outrage against Trump does not bode well for him in 2020, esp. that he lost the popular vote.
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But... that said, what awful candidate will the Dems put forth in 2020? They seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Not surprising at all - the vast majority of conservatives I know were appalled at his use of unilateral violence w/o being truly threatened
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