I hypothesize that the huge voter turnout was influenced primarily by the four year mass media smear campaign against Trump.
Thoughts on how to confirm or disconfirm?
My 2020 Election Hypothesis
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@Sum1hugme
Mass mailings and ballot harvesting had a large impact.
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@Sum1hugme
Still only 66 percent of registered voters voted. The highest turn out was in 1900 when 73.7 percent of eligible Americans cast ballots.
yeah but not just the media, politics got more feisty and more people wanted to join a side
- High stakes- both sides realistically believed this might be their last chance at national power
- Pandemic created a sense of crisis and urgency
- But also translated into record mail-in voting
- But also meant record number of people didn't have to work on election day
- Trump is undeniably polarizing- not just politically divisive, but amplifying real love/hate dynamics
- High level of Federal monitoring for fraud and voter suppression after 2016
- Most traditional voter suppression methods were subverted
- Best election day weather in history- warmer, less precip than any other national election day.
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@Sum1hugme
It wasn’t a smear campaign, it was just reporting, the vast majority of it being little more than playing Trump’s own words.
People turned out for Biden because they are not stupid enough to buy all of this “poor Donald Trump” BS he was trying so desperately to cram down our throats. Turns out what they wanted was someone who actually cared about governing as opposed to someone who’s up at 4 in the morning tweeting about how stupid some celebrity is because they made fun of him.
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@Double_R
Well, it certainly appears to have been a smear campaign, since media outlets with left leaning audiences reported overwhelmingly negative of the trump administration.