How successful have the campaigns been in shaking loose these never or infrequent voters? According to TargetSmart, a Democratic voting analytical firm, very.
FiveThirtyEight, the website set up by Nate Silver, the former New York Times writer/statistician, found: "Of the 8,000-plus people we polled, we were able to match nearly 6,000 to their voting history. We analyzed the views of the respondents in that slightly smaller group, and found that they fell into three broad groups: 1) people who almost always vote; 2) people who sometimes vote; and 3) people who rarely or never vote. People who sometimes vote were a plurality of the group, while 31 percent nearly always cast a ballot and just 25 percent almost never vote."
"It turns out that their failure to vote is not because they don't know how to register or because they find registration is difficult or inconvenient. The Heritage Foundation noted in 2013:"Of the 146 million people who the Census Bureau reported were registered to vote in 2008, 15 million did not vote.
Rather, the vast majority of these registered but nonvoters said they did not vote for reasons ranging from forgetting to vote to not liking the candidates or the campaign issues or simply not being interested.
The AP wrote: "The obstacle for Trump is that Democrats - they had a competitive presidential primary - have more voters and generated a better return rate. There are 258,000 Democrats who were registered but did not vote in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties in 2016. But during this year's primary, more than 34,300 of them became voters and cast ballots. That's more than double the gains in Republicans from the 10 leading Trump counties."
President Barack Obama had no doubt that a surge of never or infrequent voters would benefit Democrats.
The people who don't vote or rarely vote do so because they chose not to, because they're indifferent or because they don't believe their vote will make any difference.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/never-and-infrequent-voters-vote-democrat-larry-elder/
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