Posted on 02/22/2016 5:03:15 PM PST by ri4dc
US presidential elections have the lowest participation rate almost anywhere in the democratic world: Swedish general election (2014) 85.8 per cent; New Zealand general election (2014) 73.2 per cent; French presidential election (2012) 71.2 per cent; Irish general election (2011) 63.8 per cent; US presidential election (2012) 53.6 per cent.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Pretty depressing.
The first George Bush ran on Reagan coattails. Reagan was SO popular and I fear we’ll never see the likes of that again. Mainly because of massive immigration.
Sad.
Whew. That was depressing.
for later
Altogether, a very depressing picture Steyn presents. But the takeaway is that there is a large segment of the latent electorate that can be swung into action. It’s conceivable that in this election counter trends may influence outcome beyond what could happen in countries that already have closer to full turnout.
Demographics is destiny. The way it’s going America is destined to be “Brown,” socialist, and poor. Enjoy!
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You’ve got that right: demographics is destiny.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/11/07/is-demographics-as-destiny-overrated/
As we’ve learned, if the WSJ says it’s so, it prolly ain’t so.
“Two years later, what have we got? Republicans control the Senate, the House of Representatives, a majority of the nation’s governorships, and the bulk of the state legislatures. Below the presidential level, Democrats are arguably in their weakest state since the 1920s. And even if many Democrats get their wish and Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, she is not a lead-pipe cinch to win.
(Our Tories don’t see a problem with Democrats still running things through the GOP.)
“All of this points to a problem with the “demographics as destiny” argument. Whites now, and for the foreseeable future, will cast an overwhelming majority of the nation’s ballots in both midterms (75% of the vote, according to 2014 exit polls) and presidential elections (72% in 2012). And in 2010, 2012 and 2014, they favored the Republicans by a whopping 20 percentage points or more.”
We’ve got to cut these guys loose, and NR and all the rest: that entire crowd of: “Let’s elect Rubio, a guy who will drive the final nail in the coffin.”
Time for a new party—no Democrats in gated communities masquerading as conservatives allowed!
This is the first time I’ve seen this put this way and it sounds about right.
Oh yeah, you might have forgot this. Every year a million new democrat voters are added from outside the country.
The whole country will turn into California.
I’ll read it but i really only want a 20% turnout of people that can articulate a case for voting for their candidate.
Back in 1993, I don’t think anybody on our side realized how effective the Clinton “motor voter” law would turn out to be for Democrats.
Really?
Long term, two things have to happen: America has to restore the integrity of its borders, and conservatism has to get a piece of the action in the schools and the culture. Short term, the GOP has done a grand job of screwing itself out of electoral viability.>>> i read it and he gets it. border, common core destroyed, va cared for. This is our our duty to those of us that did not serve to now serve them! we cannot survive as a country choosing to neglect you all. ss not touched for now, tax cuts. that is about all any president can accomplish in 8 years. the rest is just hooey.
teyn asserts that Trump will get the majority of these other guy’s supporters when they drop out >>> exit polls i think. they do look good for trump but i’ll get flamed here.
All this wonderful LEGAL immigration sunk the conservative movement. Yet you still see people pop up out here who can’t get this simple fact through their heads. 80% of legal immigrants vote democratic.
Depressing article also. This is the last chance to stop the deconstruction of the United States. If Trump does not win, it is over.
The biggest demographic problem with the GOP is it ditched Conservatism and limited government in favor of an unholy alliance with the Democrats at the federal level (the Uniparty). In every state except Hawaii, Conservatives outnumber liberals. The GOP could win a lot of elections by embracing Conservatism as they still do at the state and local level.
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