Voters under 30 were the only age group to support Democrats but made up just 11 percent of the electorate, typical for a midterm election.
"It is far more moderate than the typical Republican primary electorate," said Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster who is advising Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in his race for the Senate.
And while we won't know for some time, some indications suggest they may have made up a larger share of the electorate than in typical midterm elections — or in other words, that young people turned out to vote in especially high numbers.
While neither Arizona nor Utah can be classified as typical states, demographically speaking, the Republican electorate in Arizona is the more representative of the country as a whole.
Monday's group wasn't representative of the GOP primary electorate but of a typical Trump fan, Luntz said.
The comment: "Now that the tyranny of the Republican minority — the ability of 1/3 of the California legislature to hold any action hostage – has ended with voter approval of majority rule, now that Democrat Jerry Brown has been elected governor, watch California roll". is typical of the ignorance of government by California electorate.
Seats won by the Tories have larger electorates; the average Conservative constituency on May 6th had 4,000 more names on the electoral roll than the typical Labour one.
In all, they mobilized 80,000 volunteers, three times the typical number, and knocked on 5 million doors, reaching 10percentt of the French electorate.
Mischelle Townsend, county registrar of voters, attributed the turnout to the electorate's political hangover from the gubernatorial recall election, the Southern California wildfires and typical slim interest in local races.
Mr. Edwards also fared better among self-described independent voters, who, if not quite the typical swing voters of a general election, perhaps came closest on Tuesday to reflecting moods among the overall electorate.
The result is that the partisan makeup of the electorate — past Republican primary voters outnumbering Democrats by 24.5 points — was a lot more like the 2016 presidential election than the 2014 midterm electorate, or even our estimates for a more "typical" midterm electorate.
