rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One thing all parties, here and in the US, need > somehow to address is voter apathy. I was > astonished to see these figures this morning: > > 231,556,622 eligible US voters > 46.9% didn't vote > 25.6% voted for Clinton > 25.5% voted for Trump > 1.7% voted for Johnson > > Really almost more worrying than the fact that a > quarter of Americans voted for Trump is the fact > that in a country which prides itself on its > democracy, which has as strongly defined a notion > of citizenship as any free nation in modern > history, nearly half the electorate couldn't be > arsed to vote. I'm not sure it's a case of voter apathy but that many voters couldn't bring themselves to vote for either candidate. I very nearly didn't vote in the last GE for the same reasons.