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TexasTowelie

(117,574 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:48 PM May 2020

Democrats surge in Ohio primary, but does that mean anything for November?

For the first time since 2008, more Democrats than Republicans voted in an Ohio presidential primary. While valid mail ballots that arrive by Friday remain to be tabulated, roughly 180,000 (26%) more from the donkey crowd were recorded by the end of Tuesday’s extended “Election Day.”

Attaching any significance to that difference requires enough asterisks to make a small blizzard.

First is the basic fact that the 2020 vote was delayed six weeks and conducted during a pandemic. It doesn’t take into account local races or issues that could have ginned up the Democratic share of a low-turnout election. And President Donald Trump was unopposed, while the D’s had a healthy contest brewing for part of the voting period, which began clear back on Feb. 19.

But figures in at least heavily Democratic Franklin County show that the blue advantage pretty much held up even after Joe Biden clinched the nomination.

Read more: https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200503/democrats-surge-in-ohio-primary-but-does-that-mean-anything-for-november
(Columbus Dispatch)

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Democrats surge in Ohio primary, but does that mean anything for November? (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2020 OP
look at 2018, all the special elections since 2016, nothing indicates any lessening of democratic beachbumbob May 2020 #1
nobody competing with trump so why would repubs bother nt msongs May 2020 #2
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
1. look at 2018, all the special elections since 2016, nothing indicates any lessening of democratic
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:10 PM
May 2020

rage and voting/ The only ones questioning are Putin's bots and foxnews propaganda channel

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