Democrats received almost as many midterms votes as Trump in presidential election - results show it

[workinclasszero]

Democrats received almost as many midterms votes as Trump in presidential election – results show it's a 'a crazy number'

Highest turnout since 1914 sees party come within touching distance of presidential popular vote tally

Tom Barnes @thomas_barnes 3 hours ago

America’s midterm elections saw Democrats win an unprecedented number of votes for an opposition party thanks to high turnout numbers.

Democratic candidates are forecast to receive more than 60.5 million votes in total for the house once the final ballots have been counted.

If accurate, the figure would be the closest an opposition party has come in a midterm election to matching the president’s backing two years earlier.

Donald Trump received just shy of 63 million votes in 2016, as he lost the popular vote but achieved a comfortable victory under the electoral college system.

House Democrats are currently on course to hit around 96 per cent of Mr Trump’s vote share from two years prior, beating the record 92 per cent of Richard Nixon’s share from 1968 seen in the subsequent midterms.

Pollster Nate Silver described the number of voters mobilised for the Democrats during the midterms as “crazy”, given turnout is usually considerably lower than in presidential elections.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/midterms-2018-turnout-democrats-trump-election-republicans-nate-silver-votes-a8641006.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Expect MASSIVE voter suppression efforts to start, added to the existing MASSIVE voter suppression

efforts and laws and systems.

[workinclasszero]

2. Right

This reported total doesn't count all the stolen/discarded or suppressed votes in Georgia, Florida, the Native American voter's denied their right to vote etc.

I bet it's a couple of million more than reported at least.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Putin will be hard at work working hand in hand with GOP and rump people to steal more

elections the way the nazi Kemp did in GA.

GA does not have a governor.

[marylandblue]

3. Also expect record Democratic turnout in 2020

I think Trump has maxed out his supporters, but we still have room to grow.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. It will take millions more votes to win, or about 3-5% more votes to win.

Since that many of our votes will be not counted or not allowed in the first place.

[marylandblue]

7. I think that is doable

[workinclasszero]

6. That's what the Idiot-in-Chief doesn't get

His fuc**** cult is maxed out and democrats are expanding daily!

If orange anus had a brain he would be trying to suck up to democrats in one way or another but he just keeps up the lies, hate and rage like a spoiled two year old brat.

Democrats are going to steamroll his ass and the dirty GOP in the 2020 election!