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A hollow superpower
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They could have stopped Trump
Voters who disdain Donald Trump have had the power to stop him but, as is often the way in the primaries, most have chosen to stay at home. Turnout in the Republican contest around this stage is at its highest since 1980, but still averages just 17% of eligible voters, according to Pew. Mr Trump’s margin of victory in the states where he has won is dwarfed by the potential pool of voters who sat it out. Even where a primary is closed to Republican voters, the apathetic far outstripped the enthusiastic. If more anti-Trump Republicans, and Democrats and independents in states that have open or semi-closed primaries, had turned out, they could have checked his momentum. Mr Trump would have picked up his fair share of that voter reservoir, but so far even the vast majority of Republicans have not voted for him.
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