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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Corrik posted...

Major cities in many areas are generally more democratic. Including the young vote centered around campuses.

However, the younger vote in cities and campuses are MORE likely to vote because they are targeted to vote. And are easy to connect to via social media, internet, tv, etc.

Is rural farmboys who usually vote Republicans or those without internet or so on as easy to connect to? Those generally are Republican votes historically.

That is my two cents. I'd love to see a study on it.

Anyone have a chart of percentage of votes to voter eligibles by state?

I agree that rural people lean Republican, but there are way more people in cities than in the sticks, and the youth vote is literally the least likely voting block.

To build on this a little...

Say you've got a blue leaning city with a population of 100,000. And a red leaning rural area of 3,000.

Let's say 90% of possible voters already vote in the city, and only 50% of possible voters vote in the rural area.

If you make everybody vote, the city just gained 10,000 voters, whereas the rural area only gains 1,500, even though the city already had a much higher voter percentage to begin with.

You may very well be right, and there may be more areas of Republicans that don't vote. But if those areas are mostly rural like you're suggesting, they get drowned out quickly by making even just a few of the biggest blue cities vote to 100%.
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