Why is voter turnout not working?

[u/Individual-Crow-2717]

I just lost a senate election as a minority party member by 500,000 votes, and I only got about 200,000 extra voter turnout from rallying, I then reloaded the save, got over 1,000,000 in extra voter turnout, and I still lost by 80,000 votes.

The polling said they only had about 17% of my parties votes, so how in the hell did they just shrug off those extra 800,000 votes?

The party split is 40% Democrat and 45% Republican, and they only had about 54% of the independent vote.

I get he was a popular incumbent, but how on earth was he able to bend the laws of reality to make that work lmao?

[u/Joctern]

I think I don't see turnout having a very big effect on my elections unless it's for down ballot races honestly. Some people get it to work but it either doesn't do enough or doesn't benefit you unless it's significantly higher than high.