Since these voters still make up about forty per cent of the over-all electorate, they gave Trump a very solid base.
"Always the challenge a president has is to continue to have strong relations with all the electorate," said Senator Mark Udall of Colorado, a critic of Mr. Obama's N.S.A. policies.
In a statement issued on Sunday afternoon, the electoral commission said it intended to finalise the count in all electorates immediately after the postal vote cut off at 6pm Tuesday.
All electorates in all countries are tempted to vote for party programmes that promise gain and no pain – and Greece's is no different.
But all electorates have their prejudices: Oscar voters seem to prefer white people and Bafta members, faced with a head-to-head between Poldark and Wolf Hall would, you suspect, be more likely to tune in for Mark Rylance than Aidan Turner.
Universal voting rights for women, for example, were heavily defeated in 1959 but were passed by a two-thirds majority (of an all-male electorate) in 1971.
Finally, in September 1864, more than two years after the arrival of Union troops, Louisiana's all-white electorate ratified a new State Constitution that formally abolished slavery in the state.
It's non-college-educated whites, the main source of Trump's support, who have been responsible for the decline of the white voter as a percentage of the over-all Presidential electorate.
Were there a voice that could lend a popular certainty to any undertaking at all in an electorate as polarized as any since the Civil War, this would be easier, carefully nurtured confusion being the root cause of our troubles.
But Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty, Labour's Brendan Howlin and the Independent Alliance's Shane Ross all said the electorate was more concerned with health, housing and other issues.
If all parties operate within the same economic framework, all the electorate is left with is a decision based on where each party stands on the spectrum of austerity.
