At a certain point you're more concerned about looking after yourself than everyone else, you dont even have the time to vote because you have to work that day and can't take the day off, or you're a single mother and can't leave your children alone there's a myriad of reasons why people can't vote, to distill it down to just laziness and apathy is wrong (though there is a ton of apathy)
The difference is the rate of decline they're estimating for the groups relative to each other.
No, it's the dropoff in these groups relative to the dropoffs in other groups.Wait a minute, you mean to tell me young voters do not participate in midterm elections as much as they do in presidential ones?
I'm not the one voting in your elections, this is my takeaway from my own conversations with friends and family in the US, we actually instituted a fine over here if you don't vote which would probably wouldn't work where you guys are because some seeing it as an encroachment on freedom or somethingYou're the one who argued it as apathy...
Again are you just looking for someone to tell you that it's ok to not engage in the democratic process?
No, it's the dropoff in these groups relative to the dropoffs in other groups.
The worry being here that the drop-off gap could work against the enthusiasm gap in '18.
Again, even the relative drop-off is nothing new. Younger votes are the least reliable bloc, especially in midterm elections. What revelation did this study provide?
When you don't have a convincing vision or message other than "continue down the same path", honestly you shouldn't expect much
Don't blame young people for not wanting to buy in this time
I'm not the one voting in your elections, this is my takeaway from my own conversations with friends and family in the US, we actually instituted a fine over here if you don't vote which would probably wouldn't work where you guys are
Just don't have health problems or student loans
Who says this won't affect me? Multiple posters have made the assertion that this election will affect the entire world. When trump won I was fucking furious as well, especially seeing as I couldn't actually do anything about it.I'm not American either...
You know you should probably make that clear that you're not even talking about something that will actually affect you when you make moral excuses
Who says this won't affect me? Multiple posters have made the assertion that this election will affect the entire world. When trump won I was fucking furious as well, especially seeing as I couldn't actually do anything about it.
It's not, I'm just trying to get to the core reason for their apathy, if you want to bring them out to vote you do need to appeal to them, they're not going to tow the party line like the myriad of racists and misogynists who do so for the Repubs every election, you guys can type furiously at me all you want but that is the truthAnd now you're making moral justifications for people who could actually do something about it not doing so?
How is that helpful?
Here in WA and in a few other states they just mail the bloomin' ballots to everybody. Then you either mail 'em back or put it in a drop box.
No lines. No waiting. Boom done.
There's nothing to inspire people, why vote?
I mean, I vote in every election. I'm just speaking to the depressive atmosphere and lack of genuine, passionate candidates.
Isn't getting out the vote in midterms one of Obama's focuses post-presidency? Wtf is he doing?
America will get what it deserves.
Leave the country if you can.
The republican party has a vested interest in this not happeningVoting should be compulsory. You vote or you get a fine like in Australia. Everyone's vote should be equal also, none of this let's give more power to the uneducated.
Millennials ain't so young anymore.Horseshit...
Buy in this time?
How about buy in anytime?
Young people constantly under show up at the ballot box.
Literally getting rid of what the US currently has should be enough for pitty sakes.
Voting should be compulsory. You vote or you get a fine like in Australia. Everyone's vote should be equal also, none of this let's give more power to the uneducated.
It's not, I'm just trying to get to the core reason for their apathy, if you want to bring them out to vote you do need to appeal to them, they're not going to tow the party line like the myriad of racists and misogynists who do so for the Repubs every election, you guys can type furiously at me all you want but that is the truth
Until election day is a national holiday I don't want to hear people shitting on the millennials for not voting. They're probably working to pay off their student loans.
The US is probably doomed? That's the most likely outcome.You literally said the core reason they don't want to vote is Trump is in power and now they're depressed.... What can you possibly say to that?
would require a constitutional amendment to get rid of the electoral college if i'm not mistaken and that won't happen tanks to the deep south
Perhaps people didn't vote because their options sucked.
The US is probably doomed? That's the most likely outcome.
Perhaps people didn't vote because their options sucked.
Time to move to France.