Analysis: This is what unusually high midterm turnout actually looks like
Ashton Seymour, 1, with his mother, LaShawn Brown, as she waits to vote at Pittman Park Recreation Center in Atlanta on Nov. 6, 2018. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 24 at 5:16 PM Something unusual happened in 2018: Americans turned out to vote.
The pattern in turnout by age is interesting. It’s generally a fairly smooth curve, from low turnout among young people to higher turnout among older people, until the dispassionate passage of time begins reducing turnout rates for other reasons. Someone on social media wondered how the turnout rates above correlated to population. As it turns out, it’s an interesting thing to consider.
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