The reason Republicans are having such a high primary turnout

[gollygee]

Is because you have one group (largely white supremacists IMO) who love Trump, and another group (including a few I've talked to) who hate him and desperately wants anyone but him nominated. That draws in both groups in high numbers, but the two groups are in opposition. You can't assume Republicans will have a high turnout in the general from that.

And, despite how it looks here at DU, I think most Democrats pretty much like both of our candidates. They might prefer one or the other, but most of us are OK with either. I like Bernie better, but I like Hillary too. When you don't have a really strong opinion between the two, you don't always vote. (But don't worry Bernie fans! I'll be out on Tuesday!)

[Frances]

1. I like your attitude

it's fine to prefer one Dem candidate to the other one. What's important is that we all get behind the eventual nominee.

Trump, Cruz, or Rubio would do so much damage to this country that there is no excuse for not doing eveything we can to support our Dem nominee whoever he/she may be.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. +1. nt

[w4rma]

2. The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism | Chris Hedges

College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity—embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—succeeded for decades. These elites, many from East Coast Ivy League schools, spoke the language of values—civility, inclusivity, a condemnation of overt racism and bigotry, a concern for the middle class—while thrusting a knife into the back of the underclass for their corporate masters. This game has ended.
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The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power.

The Republicans, energized by America’s reality-star version of Il Duce, Donald Trump, have been pulling in voters, especially new voters, while the Democrats are well below the voter turnouts for 2008. In the voting Tuesday, 5.6 million votes were cast for the Democrats while 8.3 million went to the Republicans. Those numbers were virtually reversed in 2008—8.2 million for the Democrats and about 5 million for the Republicans.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_revenge_of_the_lower_classes_and_the_rise_of_american_fascism_20160302

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. I agree

I would add too that this is not a "change" election for Democrats like in 2008 since we've had the WH for 8 years (and hope to have it for the next 8 years), so I suspect that that, combined with the possible general satisfaction with both nominees, could be causing the low(er) turnout among Dems. At any rate, it's hard to infer general election turnout among Dems by primary turnout. Has there been any polling done on this?