In South Carolina, the number of GOP votes – driven by Trump's candidacy – was twice that of the Democratic votes.
What has compounded the threat to the Democrats is what Mr. Morrison calls "strategic voting" driven by poll results and the oddities of the three-way contest.
In 2012 a record number of Latinos voted driven by strong enthusiasm for Obama's executive order protecting DREAMers (DACA), combined with a robust Latino-focused get-out-the-vote effort by OFA, and uncoordinated, but equally strong efforts by national Latino civic groups dedicated to growing the Latino electorate.
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, said he was "gutted" by the result, which he described as a protest vote partly driven by a "distaste for elites".
His vote was driven by anger at a host of forces that had made his life worse: predatory lenders, job loss, dangerous neighborhoods.
More than anything, the vote was driven by a view that the liability was just too much for a small economy to shoulder, no matter how favorable the terms.
This vote, undoubtedly driven by domestic political considerations, defies the will of the international community, harms our national interest by worsening our already abysmal standing in the Arab and wider Muslim world, and perpetuates a gross historic injustice against the Palestinian people, who no less than anyone else are entitled to self-determination on their own land.
With the presidential election in a dead heat, Vice President Al Gore sought to mobilize his campaign's "get out the vote" drive today by imploring black preachers to push for his election from their pulpits.
And it's downright outrageous when those same Democrats claim their votes were driven by drug safety concerns, since all twelve voted to lower drug safety standards when they supported the 21st Century Cures Act.
