Democrats suffered a 10 point drop among Latino women, while failing to move the needle among non-college educated women at all, who again went for Trump 63-35, preliminary data suggests.
It’s more the case that the Democrats ran a right wing campaign and didn’t convince or inspire thier own supporters to vote for them. Kinda important when voting is voluntary.
I think if that was the case, people would have showed up to vote for ranked choice voting which was on a ton of state ballots this year.
Oddly, they all failed since people didn’t bother to vote for those either. Not voting for the thing that will change the system that put these voters in this situation in the first place…
Suffice to say, it’s a lot more than just one reason.
I agree that there’s more than one reason but I’m not sure we’re on the same page about the rest.
If people failed to be motivated to go and vote for a presidential candidate, in an election where voting is voluntary, I think it stands to reason that they wouldn’t bother going to vote for anything else on the ballot. Maybe I am ignorant about how these ballot initiatives work. Don’t people vote on them at the same time as the presidential election?
It seems short sighted to throw away all of your local election voting power just because you don’t like the presidential options you have available.
And, as mentioned, particularly when one of them is specifically meant to be able to pick a better presidential candidate. Seems like the kind of thing one would want to go vote for.
