New voters choose Republicans in Georgia

Jon Ward:

In the first midterm election of Donald Trump’s presidency, Republicans took a page from the Democratic playbook to slow anti-Trump momentum in a number of key states.

Normally, Democrats are successful in nonpresidential elections when they get lots of voters to the polls who are either new to the process or who usually vote only in presidential years.

On Tuesday, however, Republicans stayed ahead of Democrats — in conservative states at least — by mobilizing their own groups of usually unreliable voters.

Early voting data from Georgia shows that while Democrats mobilized many “low propensity” or new voters to the polls in this midterm election, there were even more Republican voters who did not vote in the 2014 midterm elections who cast ballots early this year.

Election day data will complete the picture, but what is certain is that Trump brought many new off-year voters to the polls. It’s an indication that his fear-mongering about undocumented immigrants and the GOP’s demonization of Democrat Stacey Abrams had a major impact.
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It is interesting that liberals think exposing the downsides of their policies is "fear-mongering."  Exposing bad consequences of policies is a legitimate argument for any campaign.  and if fear-mongering was wrong Democrats would not have much to say especially when it comes to pushing their bad ideas about healthcare.  When Democrats make bogus claims about racism, and call Republicans fascists and Nazis wouldn't that be more accurately described as fear-mongering than say talking about the negative consequences of illegal immigration and other Democrat policies?

What really mobilized Republican voters this cycle was the Democrats mistreatment of Judge Kavanaugh.