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Note to Dems: don’t get too excited about big turnouts
Posted By katie allison granju
David Oatney says the Democrats should look at history before getting too worked up about voter interest this primary season:
Democrats do have reasons to be enthusiastic about their primary and caucus turnout numbers this election cycle. However, they should keep one thing in mind about history-there were similar large turnout numbers in Democratic primaries nationally in 1972, 1980, 1984, and 1988. In all four of those years that saw massive Democratic primary season turnout, the Democratic ticket selected from that process went down to humbling, and in two cases humiliating November defeats.
Mar 10th, 2008

