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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The thing is, they don't necessarily represent turnout, but they certainly represent a strong ground game. They make an insane amount of calls and knock on an insane number of doors. That's the primary reason he's been winning. That effect on turnout isn't generally talked about when the general happens - I'm not sure if people are just assuming that that sort of activity will happen no matter who is the nominee. I don't think that's the case.
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But there's a realistic limit to how much a candidate can increase turnout, no matter how many people they have out there knocking on doors. Obama was the first black presidential candidate. He represented a watershed in American history. He increased black turnout by
5 per cent.
Maybe Bernie will prove more inspiring and transformative to American political participation than Obama proved to black Americans. But that looks to me more like wishful thinking than a reasonable likelihood.