Only 8 % of voters under 30 are expected to vote in this election.
Midterm elections usually have only a 44% turnout of all voters. Think it will stay consistent this time?
A high turnout in Michigan would be 3.8 million voters- about 55%.
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I think the number of people voting will be around the norm for a midterm election year in Michigan. People do care about who gets elected. The problem is even when people are real excited like in 2008, half the people who could vote in this country still didn't. People know that the two-party system is broken. It seems that no matter which party is voted in they still are more concerned about getting their next campaign contribution than making sure people have policies that will help them survive. Until elections are fully publicly funded people will not have an incentive to vote for a corrupt two-party duopoly.
ReplyDeleteI sincerely believe that the voter turnout for michigan this midterm will be the same as every year. People care about fundamentals like finances and how the elected members can help them out. People who need to start voting are the people that are my age which is 20 years old, which today only 14 % actually vote. Most people today vote because they want a better country as a whole but then theirs those people that just want to vote so that they can get finical help. What people need to start doing is actually voting or the best candidate and the most experienced instead of focusing on themselves. With a better candidate that makes for a better country.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Midterm elections are not given as much hype as the Presidential one. I was heavily involved in the 2008 elections, and kept myself up to date. Now that I'm in college, I find it more difficult to know what's going on. Between work, studying, and class, I feel as though I rarely have time to watch CNN or even the news. Also, college students were the people who were the most involved in the 2008 election because of GOTV. I hadn't heard a single word from anyone involved in Bernero's or Snyder's campaign.
ReplyDeleteI voted in this election and I honestly believe that the percentages were the same. When I went to vote I really did not see many people under the age of 30 voting and didn't hear from many of my friends say they were voting. I don't think young people take it as serious as the presidential because most of them don't concern themselves with the states issues, which baffles me.
ReplyDeleteI agree with John, I voted absentee because I'm from Wisconsin, but even in hearing people talk about voting I noticed not many of my co-workers, classmates or friends voted. I also agree that people under 30 don't care that much about mid term elections because they aren't as talked about as presidential ones, and maybe they incorrectly believe presidential ones are more important. I think another issue could also be that a pretty big percentage of under 30 year old people that maybe care enough to vote are away from their home states at college, and could maybe see getting an absentee ballot as a hassle so they just don't vote.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Connie. I too am from Wisconsin, and unfortunately did not budget my time too wisely when it came to filling out my absentee application. Many people I know who go to school out of state were in a similar predicament as well.
ReplyDeleteSince we all agree on this topic, I think we can all say that that there is an issue about young Americans not focusing on state and local elections. I feel as if its your civic duty to vote, and why wouldn't you?
ReplyDeleteREAD THIS: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/201038152641591181.html.
ReplyDeleteIn the article are the numbers from the Iraq vote turnout from early 2010. This is the democracy we're gallantly fighting to instill/install and they have a higher voter turnout than we've had since the 1960 elections. Almost 63% of eligible citizens turned out for the Iraqi vote this year; some areas had an 80% turnout. Our 2008 elections, hailed as one of the greatest civic participation moments in our history, had about 58% of people coming to the polls. Citizens in Iraq fought suicide bombers and intense threats of violence to vote and participate in the democratic process. Honestly, what did we have to face? Laziness? Apathy? 38 people died in Baghdad alone in the hopes of performing their civic duty, to have their voice be heard.
America has one of the lowest voting rates, possibly the lowest, of all industrial democracies in the world. WHY? Nearly half the eligible voters don't vote because both parties are flooded with corporate money so regardless of the party in power, they feel like the just get more and more marginalized. Not only that, registering to vote in the U.S. is much harder than in Canada where your registered from birth. Even when people do vote, is your vote actually being counted? As the BBC reported in 2004, over 3 million presidential votes were never counted. And people wonder why voters have just given up.
ReplyDeleteI think voter turn would be increased during times of recession because people are ready for a change, especially in Michigan. Politicians have been saying they are going to create jobs in the state for years and that has gotten us no where. We still have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and residents are getting fed up with it.
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