Dem turnout third lowest on record
Donald Lambro:
"One of the best-kept political secrets of the Democratic primaries until now has been their low voter turnout, a potentially troubling development for the party's chances in November.
"Despite rah-rah news reports that an aroused and angry Democratic voter base was turning out in droves to choose their party's presidential nominee, Democratic turnout was, in the aggregate, the third-lowest on record.
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"Democratic turnout (an estimated 10.3 million) made up 11.4 percent of eligible voters 'in the 20 states which held primaries through Super Tuesday, higher than the 9 percent which voted in the uncontested 1996 primaries and the virtually uncontested primaries in 2000 in which 10.1 percent of the eligible electorate voted,' Mr. Gans reports. 'But it was lower than the turnout for every other presidential primary season in these states and more than 50 percent lower than the primary turnouts of 1968 and 1972.'
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"Surprisingly, Democratic turnout 'reached record lows' in some of the most intensely Democratic states in the country. In Connecticut and New York, it fell to 5.4 percent."
Donald Lambro:
"One of the best-kept political secrets of the Democratic primaries until now has been their low voter turnout, a potentially troubling development for the party's chances in November.
"Despite rah-rah news reports that an aroused and angry Democratic voter base was turning out in droves to choose their party's presidential nominee, Democratic turnout was, in the aggregate, the third-lowest on record.
...
"Democratic turnout (an estimated 10.3 million) made up 11.4 percent of eligible voters 'in the 20 states which held primaries through Super Tuesday, higher than the 9 percent which voted in the uncontested 1996 primaries and the virtually uncontested primaries in 2000 in which 10.1 percent of the eligible electorate voted,' Mr. Gans reports. 'But it was lower than the turnout for every other presidential primary season in these states and more than 50 percent lower than the primary turnouts of 1968 and 1972.'
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"Surprisingly, Democratic turnout 'reached record lows' in some of the most intensely Democratic states in the country. In Connecticut and New York, it fell to 5.4 percent."
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