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This 5 page report discusses voter participation and the lack of it in U.S. elections. The writer examines why voter participation is important, what difference does it make, and what could be possible solutions. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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gamut of everything from the inconvenience of voting to Monica Lewinsky, to the abundance of mean-spirited political debate, to Whitewater, cable television, perhaps even to the alignment of the planets!
Only 16.9 percent of all voting-age residents participated in the Democratic and Republican primaries this year, according to a report by the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate.
That was down from 19.6 percent two years ago and almost half of the 32.2 percent turnout rate of 1970, which was the high-water mark for primary turnout. If the
trend holds, 1998 will be the worst year for participation in party primaries, the elections that select candidates for the general election. Facts and figures such as this have been
presented in every possible media forum and yet, nothing changes. Theodore Lowi and Benjamin Ginsberg offer some historical aspects of the phenomenon, as well as speculation on its causes.
Only 49 percent of the people of eligible age participated in the 1996 presidential election that re-elected Bill Clinton to the White House
and continued the Republican majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. It was the first time since 1924 that most Americans stayed home and did not vote
in the presidential election. The 1924 turnout was the result of the sudden enfranchisement of tens of millions of women who hadnt yet acquired the habit of participating as
voters but were still listed on the records as eligible to vote. It serves as an ugly irony that after the government of the
United States, this its people, have spent billions of dollars attempting to build and shore up the democracies of the world while failing to recognize that the democracy which may
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