65% of new voters voted Republican
GOP wildly successful among new voters
Now this is brutal, cold reality:
When you put the numbers in that context, you see that Bush was actually hugely more successful at the margins in his combination of bringing new voters to the polls and convincing more people to switch to him than away from him. Remember that next time you hear that high turnout always and everywhere favors the Democrats.
65% of new voters breaking Republican. That’s not just big – that’s huge.