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Remember +4 means a 4% advantage. So +4 Democrat means Democrats get 54% and Republicans get 46%.
While the young voters turned out, their overall support for democrats was lower than. 2018.
White woman became more supportive of Republicans.
People living in all regions became more Republican.
Across the board we see the democrats support waning, likely as a result of poor turnout.
AisforApple
These numbers don't tell us very much without breaking them down by state. Also, exit polls are typically worse than standard polling.
TheOneJordan
Sauce: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/politics/exit-polls-2022-midterm-2018-shift/
Icantthinkofaname2
I wonder about 2014?
Rhewin
In 2018 the GOP was in power. Voters rarely favor the party in power during midterms.
Smidge204
The phrase of the day is "Negative voter turnout" - when people show up to vote against one thing, rather than in favor of the other thing.
RespectMyAuth
"We kept the senate". Who exactly is "we"? There are plenty of people on Imgur who aren't Americans and/or Democrats.
TheOneJordan
I’m not an American, but I still use “we” as in “the people who aren’t fascist, misogynistic, antisemitic, racist wet wipes”.
cdhpineapple
Sane people
aChungusAmongUs
Those little graphs suck
TheOneJordan
Haha yes I’ve tried to help explain them. They suck, but they tell an important story.
SilentZed
It's worse than the graphs sucking, those doesn't show all of the demographics or gains. Ever single displayed graph either shows a 1)
SilentZed
gain for Republicans or a Loss for Democrats, which is rather curious since this isn't an article *only* examining Democrat losses 2)
SilentZed
but the title is penned as a more broad overview of voting trends. Which feels pretty in line with perception manipulation that occurs.
rawdog
esp cause dems did so well! this is just a shit show