Actually, the turnout was exactly the same (excluding California, Oregon and Washington) which was pretty pathetic since the eligible voters went from 198.9 mil to 205.6 mile in 4 years (which includes Cal, Or and Wa).
All that happened is that the votes for Republican and Democrats flip flopped from 2002 to 2006.
I'm not sure I believe their figures. I know I don't understand them.
That's right and some of those that would have flipped stayed home. There was some increase in rat voters in various places such as university towns. All this means is that the "independent" voter was effected, not the base. You can't call a anyone that votes R and D a base R. The flip floppers are sympathetic to rat agit prop.
"I'm not sure I believe their figures. I know I don't understand them."
The nummbers come from various Sec of State offices. I'm sure they are good numbers, as are the simple statistics based on them.
"You won't get it because they don't exist...and certainly not from this study."
The facts do exist as data over the years for all candidates for all offices in many years, but to the analysis is very complicated and time consuming. It's a full time project, that I estimate would take roughly up to 2 years for 50 states for 1 person from past experience in WI. Here I can see there was no change in the real R base turnout, or vote. The rats gained the I vote.