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Five reasons why Democrat turnout will be depressed while GOP turnout will be high in November 2020
American Thinker ^ | 02/07/2020 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 02/07/2020 7:51:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Because the American electorate is rather evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, turnout becomes the key to electoral success in November. While a lot can happen in nine months, there are five factors that I see discouraging Democrat turnout and helping the GOP.

1. The Biden family scandals

Thanks to Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler and the impeachment lynch mob, the lid has been blown off the Biden family’s practice of trading on the patriarch’s position to enrich themselves. Biden’s campaign is imploding, so he won’t be on the ballot. But the investigations of Hunter and Burisma are heating up and will cast a pall over the party. Biden was supposed to bethe unifier, a tangible link to the reign of St. Barack, whose appeal to blue collars and African-Americans was supposed to recover lost voters and motivate turnout among the most critical segment of the base.

2. The Democrat party’s bungling of the Iowa caucus count

They are supposed to be the party of science, of the smart guys, the ones who can restructure the economy and medical systems, but they can’t even count votes. Even with 100% of the vote finally reported, there are protests that errors and inconsistencies are rampant, and even friendly media outlets are reporting the doubts. Trust in the party is tanking. And it is not just Republicans that are mistrustful.

3. Genuine socialists are trying to take over the party

Among those distrusting the party apparatus are the Bernshevik faction of the Democrats. If the plutocrats somehow can’t stop them, a lot of the suburban voters the Democrats have made inroads on will stay home rather than vote for a man who wants to tax away their wealth because it is unfair they live in nice neighborhoods.

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THE OTHER TWO REASONS:

4. Blacks are being aggressively courted by Trump

5. The Democrat party is being purchased by the sixth richest man in the world

1 posted on 02/07/2020 7:51:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“4. Blacks are being aggressively courted by Trump”
This is something the Rats cannot undo. They can dump Bernie due to his Commie/Socialist, however many Blacks are done with ‘The Plantation’.


2 posted on 02/07/2020 7:56:20 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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I have a serious question if there will even BE a Democrat party in November.


3 posted on 02/07/2020 7:57:16 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I really hope this is correct...I feel the democrats know they don’t have a real presidential candidate so they might put most of their efforts into holding the House and trying to take the Senate...This we have to stop...We need to regain the House to accomplish a lot of what we conservatives strive for....


4 posted on 02/07/2020 7:58:10 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: wastoute

They’re gonna have a civil war before they settle on a nominee.


5 posted on 02/07/2020 7:58:10 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SeekAndFind
3. Genuine socialists are trying to take over the party
3. Genuine socialists communists are trying to take over the party.
6 posted on 02/07/2020 7:59:44 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SeekAndFind

Armed Trump supporters guarding the polling places to keep demodrones away? You KNOW that will come up someplace. Or the proud boys or white supremacists helping Trump steal yet another election. Or maybe even spetsnaz troops in some locations.


7 posted on 02/07/2020 7:59:46 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SeekAndFind

3b. Hard-left candidates might garner a greater popular vote, but have insufficient attraction to center and right-leaning states - ultimately failing to get enough Electoral votes.

Trump was a fluke: a mid-right extremist. He’s not far-right, being verbally supportive but not aggressive on such issues as abortion, gun rights, low taxes, etc. (He _could_, but hasn’t, issued viable Executive Orders such as: prosecuting pre-birth “infanticide”, accelerating BATFE Form 1 & 4 processing, declaring all Selective Service registrants exempt from 922(o), flooding Congress with requests to rescind spending, etc.)


8 posted on 02/07/2020 7:59:49 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Democrats oppose democracy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP must get back control of the House. It’s as important as Trump’s re-election.


9 posted on 02/07/2020 8:02:52 AM PST by Signalman
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We need to regain the House

Bigly. Pray for long coattails.

10 posted on 02/07/2020 8:03:04 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden is toast. Info on money laundering in Ukraine about to explode.


11 posted on 02/07/2020 8:04:32 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: goldstategop

Can you imagine if Bernie takes his bros Third Party?


12 posted on 02/07/2020 8:04:48 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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.I feel the democrats know they don’t have a real presidential candidate so they might put most of their efforts into holding the House and trying to take the Senate...This we have to stop...We need to regain the House to accomplish a lot of what we conservatives strive for.

The two kinda go hand-in-hand. When a Popular candidate is on the ballot, that gives votes to candidates 'down ballot' an uplift. RAT pundits are already 'sending up flares' since turnout in the Iowa caucus was so low - it suggests there is no unity around a single RAT candidate and turnout could be lower in the fall.

Trump is already riding a wave - hope he didn't crest too soon.

13 posted on 02/07/2020 8:04:58 AM PST by 11th_VA
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Lifson missed a big one.

Normal Democrats are having none of what the Party is pushing and they jumping ship to President Trump.

The Democrat party has abandoned them so they are looking to President Trump

14 posted on 02/07/2020 8:06:08 AM PST by rdcbn ( Referentiai)
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To: goldstategop

For years it had always been spotlighted that the republicans had in=fighting. Anyone with a brain knows that is true.

The democrats have been led with an iron fist for years, and none dared to step out of the day.

It is pleasurable now to see the younger very hardcore socialists come to the forefront of the democrat party and pull them very hard to the left.

In order to keep those newbies and their young voters happy, Nancy has to reveal just how far she is to the left. That will simply turn off the middle of the road undecided voters.

POTUS is going to do so well in November that he will generate a ton of votes for the down-ballot GOP candidates.

Having the US House and Keeping the US Senate is going to really help us this time. I can smell the new tax cuts from here.


15 posted on 02/07/2020 8:06:13 AM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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16 posted on 02/07/2020 8:07:16 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SeekAndFind

I beg to differ. They are turning out to vote...

For Trump!


17 posted on 02/07/2020 8:09:07 AM PST by 5by5 (ad)
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To: wastoute
I have a serious question if there will even BE a Democrat party in November.

That's an interesting point. There is lots of infighting going on between the powers-that-be, the upstarts that believe that they should have a say, and the extremists (which is most of the Dems anyway, except they themselves are fragmented about which direction and what the one "righteous" cause should be).

If the DNC screws Bernie over again, they will have no chance in hell of beating Trump, and you could even see a splinter party forming.

18 posted on 02/07/2020 8:09:23 AM PST by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: goldstategop
They’re gonna have a civil war before they settle on a nominee.

You of course are using the old fashioned metaphorical meaning of "civil war" meaning a political divide that splinters a party in two.

The other usage will be reserved for what happens if the working-within-the-system method fails to bear fruit in November. Virginia's anti-2nd Amendment actions are a step in that unhappy direction.

19 posted on 02/07/2020 8:12:07 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Democrat party is being purchased by the sixth richest man in the world

It seems Bloomberg made Soros an offer he couldn't refuse.

20 posted on 02/07/2020 8:12:25 AM PST by glennaro
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