The liberal FiveThirtyEight blog broke down new SurveyMonkey data on voter turnout in the 2016 presidential election in an effort to explain away Hillary Clinton’s loss — without really understanding what actually happened …

FiveThirtyEight reported:

Registered voters who didn’t vote on Election Day in November were more Democratic-leaning than the registered voters who turned out, according to a post-election poll from SurveyMonkey, shared with FiveThirtyEight. In fact, Donald Trump probably would have lost to Hillary Clinton had Republican- and Democratic-leaning registered voters cast ballots at equal rates.

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Alright. Turnout in an important factor. Let’s dig in further to see what other pearls of wisdom come out of the analysis:

Trump was able to win, in large part, because voters who disliked both candidates favored him in big numbers, according to the exit polls. Clinton, apparently, couldn’t get those who disliked both candidates — and who may have been more favorably disposed to her candidacy — to turn out and vote.

Still not quite there. Do you think they ever get any closer?

In the SurveyMonkey data, white non-college graduates made up 48 percent of 2016 registered voters who didn’t vote, substantially lower than 2012. They made up 47 percent of voters. It’s pretty remarkable that a group of voters that is shrinking as a percentage of the population made up a larger share of the electorate in 2016 than in 2012. But Trump made a clear appeal to this group, and some voters who stayed at home in previous years may have felt they had a greater voice in 2016. Simply put, Trump got more of his voters to turn out than Clinton did. That’s quite a turnaround from the pre-election conventional wisdom that the Clinton campaign had the better turnout machine. Of course, Clinton’s turnout operation may well have nudged many reluctant voters to the polls, but either way, it wasn’t enough. The polling numbers from SurveyMonkey indicate that Clinton was hurt dearly by the voters who decided not to vote.

The left just doesn’t get it. They really don’t. In their lengthy analysis of the numbers they break down by race, age, etc., but they still don’t get the movement that propelled Trump to victory. They still don’t get how abysmal a candidate Clinton really was.

The post read: “some voters who stayed at home in previous years may have felt they had a greater voice in 2016.”

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There’s no “may have felt,” they absolutely did. If liberals stepped out of their bubble every once in a while they would have seen what was happening.

Then again, they probably also wouldn’t have the bigoted beliefs that plague the left in part because they refuse to engage with those that disagree with them, in addition to their blind elitism and their cult-like belief that their way is the only way.

But hey, keep the wool over your eyes, leftists, and we’ll keep on winning election after election. Although it’s important, of course, to have strong opposition to keep the other side honest, since the left has devolved into bigotry and delusion, perhaps another ideology will come to the fore either within the Democrat Party or perhaps even another party.

We’ll see what happens, but now’s the time to Make America Great Again — and if the left wants to wallow in their ignorance, that’s up to them.





