Apparently, I was over 10% more cynical that I should have been when I wrote the following:
I'm still banking on a voter turnout of well under 40%, in this, The Most Important Election Ever.
Although voter turnout of eligible voters has been steadily declining from a high of just over 63% in 1960, it was still over 50% in 2000. We'll see if there's a bump up this year, given how the Fate Of All That Is Good hangs in the balance and so forth.
Originally, I sought out the statistics in response to Stephan Green's fit of fearful disgust regarding a bit of Drudge. Thinking that voter turnout in Presidential election years was much lower than it actually was, I was going to suggest people have already lost "faith that elections work."
50% isn't great. But it isn't as bad as I thought, either.
Unfortunately, my brain is still soft and a bit shagged out for various reasons that I'm not prepared to go into, just now. So that's the entirety of my effort for today: I was wrong.
