Jack and DP said:
Porteroso said:
You guys aren't being intellectually honest if you're claiming people couldn't have been that motivated to vote for Biden, you know this was about getting Trump out of there. Not only did Dems hate Trump, but a ton of Repubs and most moderates wanted him gone.
Trump was divisive enough to make anyone with a lick of sense want him out.
Also, historically, this is not near the percentage of the population that used to vote. We've had decades of low voter turnout, and this is moving back in the direction of normal turnout in this country.
So explain the second highest vote total of all time? 73 million for Trump. I'm not sure either vote total is legit.
My explanation is just a guess, but I think as we become more and more divided among party lines, we are more and more politicized. Trump is motivating record numbers of evangelicals, and single issue citizens to vote. Trump also motivated record numbers of the normally apathetic to vote. (I made that last one up but I bet it holds up)
edit: If you go back to the 1800s, and I know thi s isn't too relevant, but more like 80% if the eligible population, so white males, were routinely voting.
In 2016, 60.1% voted, and this year, about 66. 8%.
To me, it's expected that Trump's divisiveness motivated another 6.7% of the population to vote.