The data shows Trump isn't bringing waves of new voters into the GOP

[Benton]

(05-17-2016, 11:07 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-polling-turnout-early-voting-data-213897

Politico crunched the numbers given to them by the GOP and other analysis groups regarding the primaries and the data overwhelmingly shows that the huge increase in GOP primary voters is from GOP general election voters who previously just never voted in primaries.

Is this good news for the GOP in general? Absolutely. More competitive primaries are a good thing going forward.

Does it help Trump's claim that he is expanding the party? No, he's simply getting to voters who have always voted GOP in the general.

The number of brand new voters in many states and the number of party switchers are very similar to 2008 and 2012 numbers.

But there's also the point that a lot of voters on each side haven't voted in a while because they don't think their party reflects them.

So while Trump may not be attracting new voters, he is attracting Republicans... who, largely, are people that haven't voted much because the GOP is mostly a Christian Conservative group. Same was as Sanders isn't attracting Democrats, he's attracting liberals.