There’s a bit of substantiation for my column questioning whether Hillary Clinton can reverse the six-year slide in Democratic turnout in this item from my Washington Examiner colleague Paul Bedard’s Washington Secrets. Results from a Reuters/Ipsos poll suggest low levels of interest in the 2016 presidential election.
This could be worse news for Democrats than Republicans. The all-but-certain Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is widely known; there is relatively little room for voters to revise their opinions of her. The Republican candidates, in contrast, are lesser known: There is room for enthusiasm for them both to grow and to wither, depending on how they perform in the campaign. Of course the same could be said of Democratic alternatives to Clinton, if their candidacies ever get off the ground.
