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43. We still keep hearing the assertion about former Obama voters voting for Trump

and I have yet to see any proof of this. And repeating it verbatum appears to be deliberate because it not only fits a pervasive anti-Clinton narrative, but is done to completely marginalize the fact that this country was founded and built on the backs of marginalized people - i.e., those who were not white, land-owning straight Christian males.

If anything, you may have had former Obama voters go 3rd-party or sit home, but there was apparently an enhanced turnout of first-time or occasional voters who voted for Trump - you can see that through the tight margins in certain states that were previously not in dispute, and where statewide higher-office races actually went to Democrats, like here in PA, where the federal races with 2 women (President & Senator) went R but AG and other offices went D.

I.e., in any general contested election, there are about 40% of eligible and/or registered voters who do not vote or are kept from voting. But the potential is there for various combinations and permutations of voters out of that 40%, who finally decide to vote, trading places with some from the 60% who voted in previous elections, but sat it out this go-around.