Reply #35: there's more "non" than "swing" voters

[ulTRAX]

Stevendsmith wrote: "Look, Kerry has my vote, but the swing folks need to be educated on the perils of another four years of this disaster."

Why concentrate on swing voters. What about those who usually don't vote. Here's the stats from election 2000

213,954,023 potential US voters
156,421,311 registered US voters

99,738,383 actual votes for Congress
105,404,546 votes for president

from: http://www.idea.int/vt/country_view.cfm (go to US)

Some 51 MILLION registered voters did not vote.
About 49% of the voting age population bothered to vote in 2000.