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THREAD: I crunched some numbers on last nights elections. I included states where Donald Trump was on the ballot and I could grab data. Some were odd. Also, all data is not in yet but shouldn’t change a ton This is all primary vs. primary 2016/2020
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ALABAMA:
D turnout up 13%. In a year where there is an incumbent, and R’s are merely coming out in a show of force, R turnout was down 13%.
Biden 2020: 286,630
Clinton 2016: 309,928
Sanders 2016/2020: 76,399/75,326
Trump 2016/2020: 371,735/708,883
Trump beats Biden by 422K
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ARKANSAS:
D turnout up less than 1%, R turnout -40%
Biden 2020: 92,584
Clinton 2016: 144,580
Sanders 2016/2020: 64,868/51,117
Trump 2016/2020: 133,144/237,826
Trump beats Biden by 145K votes, and beats the entire top 4 in the field combined (Warren, Biden, Bloomberg, Sanders
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CALIFORNIA:
D turnout -41%, R turnout -28%
Biden 2020: 733,086
Clinton 2016: 2,713,259
Sanders 2016/2020: 2,326,030/992,304
Trump 2016/2020: 1,635,349/1,441,031
Trump beats Sanders by 448,727 and Biden by 707,945
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MASSACHUSETTS:
D turnout =13%, R turnout -52%
Biden 2020: 459,730
Clinton 2016: 603,784
Sanders 2016/2020: 586,716/362,626
Trump 2016/2020: 311,313/231,634
Trump loses to dems in this hypothetical head to head