Cirio on 01 December 2016
Hillary trails Obama's 2012 votes by over 2 million ballots. There was clearly a low voter turnout for Democrats because she did not appeal to the masses. Sanders did, and as others have pointed out, he invigorated the Democratic and Independent voters. No one knows what the outcome of the election could have been (since it's all hypothetical), but it's safe to say that voter turnout from Democrats and Independents would have been higher had Sanders been the Democratic candidate.
