That is a trend that is not good. It shows more people losing the ability to vote. I would say something needs to be done, but like I said, its been 40 years of both parties not doing anything about it. And now? Not even sure if you will have another election this free.
It only does that if you sort by VAP, and that metric just does not hold up when an estimated 4.4 million adults can not vote. But these are all issues that neither party cared to address for the last 40 years so I don't think anyone can claim the high horse.
If you look at the the 1960 (JFK vs Nixon) then maybe if they had VEP then it could have been another barn burner to compare.
It was not included before it was invented, it was also not needed as the level of voter disenfranchisement was not yet an issue. It is now the standard metric (since you guys have so many people that are barred from voting).
Its people that have lost the right/ability to vote. Most likely due to the terrible american for profit prison system.
Yes, we all are. I am just sick of this pretending they did not.
Why did you cut out the VEP? The very next column....
it stands for Voting Eligible Population by the way.
Edit, for those not willing to click a link here is the picture not cut off:
Notice how there are 3 measurements of voter turn out? Two of which show this to have been the second highest turn out? Now does this show a larger then there should be level of disenfranchisement? Yes, so fix that!
Yes, and that does not imply what the democrats think it does.
I hate the us government as much as the next invasion target, but this stupid tribalism has gotten out of hand. Was this the inevitable result of a two party system (a joke pretending to be a democracy)? Maybe, but the very idea that I am expected to "pick a side" even as a outsider and that once I do half of the us will write me off is laughable.
America, you did this. Stop trying to make it someone else's fault.
If we are to assume that there was voting suppression, do something about it!
If we are to assume that there was voting fraud, do something about it!
If we are to assume that the majority of americans did not want the current administration, then do something about it!
This should be a no brainier if you have the majority of americans against this then you should have the will and ability to do something about it.
But you clearly don't have the majority of your nations people behind you in this, most likely don't care enough (a side effect of that two party system) or and this might shock you, that the majority of americans are really just that awful and want to watch the free world burn.
Yay, 2 more keystrokes!
Why is the effort increasing? We had a whole thing going.
Just 3 more and I will believe you can not care less.
Found the american. Or at the very least someone so ill informed of history they may as well be.