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Originally Posted by dyna mo
Things must have changed when Obama ran/2008, those #s were a lot lower 10 years ago eh?
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I found on
Wikipedia some numbers from every US election.
It looks like it goes up and down. For example in 1980 turnout was 52.8%. In 1996 it was 49%.
It looks like it has been on a slow, steady rise since 2000 when it was 50.3%.