Democratic voter turnout surged on Super Tuesday, exceeding 2016 levels in at least a dozen states and setting an all-time record in one of them.How many of those voters were motivated to turn out to vote because Bloomberg's flooding the airwaves with ads reminded them that there was a primary and what the stakes were-- did they really want to have to choose between two rich authoritarians for president?
In Virginia, the fourth most delegate-rich state to hold a primary Tuesday, more than 1.3 million voters cast ballots — a nearly 70 percent increase over 2016, when about 783,000 voted in the Democratic presidential primary. That surpasses a previous record set in 2008, when just under 1 million voters turned out.
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Was he just enough of a distraction to slip Biden in the back door?
Great example of how history, the narrative, is rewritten by those in a position to get away with it. I didn't have a dog in this fight until The Media, Wall Street and the Corporate Dems decided to paint Elizabeth Warren out of the picture and Bernie Sanders the nutty professor in Back to the Future. Joe Biden has personally done me harm. There are lines that will not be crossed.
One interesting thing about the turnout numbers is that even where the turnout increased by a lot, the proportion of younger voters didn't.
That doesn't bode well for Sanders, whose strategy for winning the general is a massive mobilization of young previously inactive voters.
-Doug in Oakland
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