Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>So the next question is why. Why does the US have such a low voter turn out?<<<

One can only guess, but education surely plays a role. US students consistently bring up the rear on tests competing against foreign students. If you can't find your own country on a world map, you probably don't go out of your way to register to vote either. And then it's the overall culture. Our media no longer feels obligated to inform us of important events but concentrate instead on what produces the largest profit. As we keep noting here - we seem to get all the big political stories from the European press these days, and if it's not too embarrassing for Bush, our own media may cover it a week or two later and then typically in passing before going back to the latest murder circus.