Allen Clifton
November 11, 2014
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It's only been a week since this year's midterm elections, but it seems like it's been much longer. Since the elections, there's been an endless parade of Republicans on just about every news outlet boasting about the massive victories experienced by their party this year.
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And they're right. For Republicans it was a great election night. At the end of the day, their party did indeed score huge wins all across the country.
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But there's one stat that I'm fairly certain you won't see any Republican want to address - the abysmal voter turnout.
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How bad was it? Well, we just experienced the worst voter turnout in this country since 1942. You know, right in the middle of WWII.
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In fact, only 34.6 percent of the voting-eligible public voted this year. To be fair, voter turnout during midterm elections is always lower than during presidential election years - but not this low.
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