How Many People Are Going to Vote in this Year’s Election?
5 min readOct 21, 2020
Voter turnout is likely to decide the winner. In prior elections, a candidate for President could win by capturing the lion’s share of “swing voters,” “undecided voters,” or “independent voters.” This year, that’s no longer the case.
Why?
There’s just not very many of them. Research by political scientist Corwin D. Smidt indicates that in…