peaccenicked
9th February 2002, 11:53
http://www.govspot.com/features/youngvoterapathy.htm
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/comme...,611962,00.html (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/comment/0,11030,611962,00.html)
A quote:
"Why don't we vote? Our recent midterm national elections resulted in the lowest voter turnout since 1942. Barely 36 percent of our country's eligible voters exercised this political freedom and power, even with our President's survival and single-party domination of Congress in question. When it comes to voting, our kids see over and over again that we don't "walk the talk."
Was voter turnout low because it wasn't a presidential election year? Not really. Only 54 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots during the last four decades of presidential elections. Compare that embarrassing number to Italy's 90 percent, Germany's 80 percent, France and Canada's 76 percent, Britain's 75 percent and Japan's 71 percent. We rank 35th in voter turnout out of the world's prominent democracies."
More statistics popular vote greens, socialists
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/U.S._Green_Partyhttp://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/e01/partycand.htmhttp://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/9907/page67a.htm[/url]
Here is an optimistic overview.
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun...un00/barzun.htm (http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun00/barzun.htm)
(Edited by peaccenicked at 9:29 pm on Feb. 10, 2002)
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/comme...,611962,00.html (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/comment/0,11030,611962,00.html)
A quote:
"Why don't we vote? Our recent midterm national elections resulted in the lowest voter turnout since 1942. Barely 36 percent of our country's eligible voters exercised this political freedom and power, even with our President's survival and single-party domination of Congress in question. When it comes to voting, our kids see over and over again that we don't "walk the talk."
Was voter turnout low because it wasn't a presidential election year? Not really. Only 54 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots during the last four decades of presidential elections. Compare that embarrassing number to Italy's 90 percent, Germany's 80 percent, France and Canada's 76 percent, Britain's 75 percent and Japan's 71 percent. We rank 35th in voter turnout out of the world's prominent democracies."
More statistics popular vote greens, socialists
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/U.S._Green_Partyhttp://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/e01/partycand.htmhttp://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/9907/page67a.htm[/url]
Here is an optimistic overview.
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun...un00/barzun.htm (http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun00/barzun.htm)
(Edited by peaccenicked at 9:29 pm on Feb. 10, 2002)