[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