That's not shocking to me. I actually live with 2 first time voter roommates. Everybody voted in this one. I think there's so many reasons for it too. I think you're right trumps mouth is one but that divisiveness seemed to just drive more people from both sides to vote. It was news.

Every. Single. Day. It was news. It wanted to be news. It made proclamations on twitter and such. Everyone felt like they were a part of it. Canadians are arguing with swedes about it on these forums.

When something becomes routinely a part of your daily life, for better or worse, you're going to feel a bit of personal attachment to it. The idea the politics doesnt affect you, (which largely it does not), becomes less of a reality for people when the toxicity of it actually does become a part of our lives and people are talking about it constantly.