Posted on 02/19/2020 6:45:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK - As Republican President Donald Trump seeks a second term in November, Americans’ interest in voting is growing faster in large cities dominated by Democrats than in conservative rural areas, according to an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos national opinion polls.
If the trend lasts until Election Day on Nov. 3, it would be a reversal from the 2016 election when rural turnout outpaced voting in urban areas, helping Trump narrowly win the White House.
The finding, based on responses from more than 88,000 U.S. adults who took the online poll from August to December 2015 or from August to December 2019, suggests that the “Blue Wave,” a swell of anti-Trump activism that followed his entry into the White House in 2017, is still rolling across the country’s largest population centers.
Even as Trump commands rock-solid support among Republicans, voters’ interest in going to the polls appears to be growing faster among those who disapprove of Trump than among those who approve of him, according to experts who reviewed the data.
The advantage in urban political engagement extends deep into the most competitive battleground states that Trump won by razor-thin margins four years ago, the data shows.
In large urban areas of the upper Midwest, a region that includes swing states Michigan and Wisconsin, for example, the number of people who said they were “certain” to vote in the upcoming presidential election rose by 10 percentage points to 67% compared with survey responses from 2015.
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Reuters.
We’ll see.
As I suspected, the poll has no party preference information. It is assumed that increasing interest in voting in the urban areas is bad for Trump, when other current polls suggest this may not be the case.
My gorge is rising.
40 seats? pretty strong
Perfect, a picture is worth a thousand words...
So...304 electoral votes for PDJT, versus 227 electoral votes for Hillary Clinton is considered narrowly winning.
“adults”
Read no further.
Spin worse than a Tilt-A-Whirl.
“rising” or merely where it has always been
ummmm, aren't shities their base???
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