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In reply to the discussion: A Party that loses an election and blames voters for not showing up at the polls . . . [View all]Johonny
(20,829 posts)There are, of course, in most places tons of non-partisan offices, referendums, bond measures, and propositions on the ballot. So your telling me people stayed home because they didn't like one, two candidates. This makes no sense as there are tons of things to vote on besides these partisan offices. If that's why you don't vote then you don't understand the voting process. I weep for voters like the ones you insinuate. Personally I don't the reason Democratic leaning voters didn't show at the polls has anything to do with this. I wouldn't want to insult them by even pretending it did. Voting turnout generally tracks income level, home ownership, education level... it's almost like the more you have to lose the more engaged in the process people are. Democratic voters tend to be poor, hence low turnout. Why people are more engaged in presidential elections and not local and off year elections is something that could fill pages in sociology and political science books. If your scenario was correct it would be easy to fix, but it is likely is very, very wrong.