[moyta]

I'd say the vote was suppressed, but that is mainly due to how hard it is in the US to vote. You need to be registered to vote months in advance, depending where you live you likely need to show up to a polling place and wait for hours in line on a particular day during work hours, etc.

All this means that of the 220 million eligible voters, only 120 million actually voted this election, whereas for Obama in 2008, 130 million people voted (nearly all of that 10 million going to Obama). If Hillary had had a stronger ground game, or pulled in the Bernie call canvasers, she could have turned those 10 million out to the polls.

The sad thing is, after Bernie's loss, many of the people I met in West Michigan did not turn out to vote, or if they did they did not vote for Hillary. I know at least 15 of the people I met did not vote, and another 5 voted for another candidate.

[pessimizer]

The turnout wasn't that bad for this election, the turnout was bad for the Democratic base this election.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/voter-turnout-fell-espe...

"The drop in turnout was uneven. On average, turnout was unchanged in states that voted for Trump, while it fell by an average of 2.3 percentage points in states that voted for Clinton."

[saghm]

I might be misinterpreting this, but wouldn't that quote imply the opposite? If the states that voted for Clinton had fewer voters than before but she still won, the seems to me like that means that the people who did vote were Democrats, not those who didn't