Is The Republican Base Shrugging?
It’s hard not to notice that despite his win in the Nevada Caucuses on Saturday, aggregate statewide turn-out seems to have been substantially down. This follows a decreased turn-out in Florida, causing many to wonder if the current crop of candidates simply is not exciting the Republicans’ conservative base. It seems there’s an increasingly fatalistic segment of the conservative base looking at the nomination process and giving up in disgust. This isn’t going to help the Republicans, whomever their eventual nominee, and i think I understand it perfectly well, but more, I’ve seen its expression in the turnout but also in social media like Twitter and Facebook. Conservatives are thoroughly discouraged, and if that’s what the party wanted it, they may yet get more come November.
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