What Nonvoters Want
Boosting turnout won’t necessarily help the most progressive candidate.
by Yascha Mounk
Feb 26, 2020
3 minutes
Senator Bernie Sanders is now the front-runner in the Democratic primary. As he has risen in the polls, so has a theory about elections: The key to a progressive victory is motivating previous nonvoters to show up at the polls.
“To defeat Donald Trump,” Sanders proclaimed at a recent rally in Exeter, New Hampshire, “the simple truth is we are going to need to have the largest voter turnout in the history of American politics. That means we are going to
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