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Originally Posted by Mutt
where are people seeing this apathy? i've never seen people so engaged with politics as they are today. this is a PORN INDUSTRY forum and it is filled with political threads and debates constantly and I see the same thing all over the Internet.
Voter turnout in the past two presidential elections was 57% which is historically very good.
Look at these numbers from 1932 to 1944 - the Great Depression and World War II, a period where people would be as politically aware and patriotic you'd assume, in simpler times where people had many less distractions.
1932 52.6%
1936 56.9%
1940 58.8%
1944 56.1%
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The apathy is in the numbers. 57% voter turnout is good? That is terrible. That means 43% of those eligible to vote either don't care enough or can't be bothered to take a few hours out of their day every few years to cast a ballot.
In my state we have a little higher than the national average. In the last election we had about 61% turnout. Here is the kicker. In my state we have vote by mail. They mail you the ballot. All you need to do is fill it out and put it back in the mail and you are done yet 40% of the people can't be bothered to do that.