Voter Apathy as a Response to Lack of Change
A short post today, as I am suffering from Friday Fatigue and What’s the Point-itis.
A friend of mine passed me a great link today that provides some valuable insight into the MA special election, with nice graphics. It seems that overall voter turnout in the state was down, but Republican turn-out was up. Maybe this makes sense in light of the fact that most people only vote if they really think their vote will make a difference. Democrats turned out heavily for Barack Obama in 2008, largely because of the promise of change, the sense that things could be different. After observing the first year of Obama’s presidency, with a “majority” of Democrats in Congress, those of us who were “Hope Democrats” are almost completely demoralized. No wonder so many stayed home.
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