Given the party’s recent recapture of the House of Representatives, Democrats are feeling optimistic about their chances of denying Donald Trump a second term as president. But new research indicates they still face a huge problem: Getting their voters to the polls.
A study based on recently released data finds that, in the 2018 mid-terms, Trump supporters were more likely to cast a vote than Trump opponents. This disparity “softened the negative effect of Trump’s weak approval polls on Republican candidate vote totals,” reports Fordham University political scientist Jeffrey Cohen. CONT.
Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard