Low turnout in Iraq's election reflects a disillusioned nation

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/883151.html ^

[chessplayer]

Voter turnout in Iraq's provincial elections Saturday was the lowest in the nation's short history as a democracy, despite a relative calm across the nation. Only about 7.5 million of more than 14 million registered voters went to the polls.

[chessplayer]

The msm has to find some way to put down the elections.

[Da Coyote]

Saw the lede - was mildly interested.

Saw the “Miami Herald” - lost interest.

[Inkie]

Anything to put s—t on it. The drive-by media at it again.

[Parley Baer]

Hehehehe. Exactly my thoughts.

[mplsconservative]

That’s over half the population. Zero got less votes.

[Cicero]

I seem to get a variety of figures on how many eligible Americans voted in the 2006 election, from 53% to 68%. I suspect that the lower number is probably more accurate.

In any case, the number of Americans who voted for the Savior Obama isn’t much different from the number of Iraqis who voted in this last election.

Yes, it’s fewer than Iraq’s first free election. That’s not really surprising, is it?

[SandRat]

The article's author LEILA FADEL, McClatchy Newspapers would do well to lay down her UberLIBERAL Thinking, get off the Bar-Stool and take a look around Iraq. Then before she even keys in the first word check all that has been reported in FRWN, and go back out into Iraq and look again. Only then she might, just might, have the faintest hint of what reality is. Her UberLIBERAL Kool-Aid isn't it, that Kool-Aid induced thinking is off in “Luft Kluck-Kluck Lande.”

[Nathan Zachary]

Still a better turn out than American elections. So stuff it MSM

[traditional1]

"Only about 7.5 million of more than 14 million registered voters went to the polls"

Yeah; whereas in the USA now, 14 million votes get cast for Democrats, where only 7.5 million registered voters exist.....

Go figgur......

[Islander7]

“....Voter turnout in Iraq’s provincial elections Saturday was the lowest in the nation’s short history as a democracy...”

Duh, this is only their second election.

[DCPatriot]

So...do elections in the USA see more than 50% of registered voters cast a ballot?

[G8 Diplomat]

Yeah, well here in the US voter turnout is always low for presidential elections and often less than 20% for Congressional ones. So are we a disillusioned nation too?

Stuff it, MSM.

[School of Rational Thought]

Turnout not necessary. Bring in Acorn.

[Bean Counter]

I’m sure the Miami Herald longs for the Good Old Days, when voter turnout was 100%...for Saddam Hussien...

Just wait until The One normalizes relations with Cuba...

[beckysueb]

Sounds to me like they are getting used to democracy and are getting like America. Let the next guy go vote. I don’t feel like it.

[Yardstick]

Yeah, maybe disillusionment. Or maybe they’re less worried about the consequences of the other side winning this time, so the urgency isn’t there like before.

[Jet Jaguar]

More than half voted? How’s that America? How is voter turnout here?

[FocusNexus]

MSM’s distortion of news strikes again!

Looks like little over half of registered voters voted — this is equivalent to our “off-year” elections, this was election of local politicians/leaders, NOT a presidential election.

Here is the historical turnout for US general elections:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html

Gee — I guess the US has been a “disillusioned nation” by the MSM’s criteria, for a long time. In off-year elections, only 37% of the voters turn out, and in most presidential elections the turnout is little over 50%.

[cookcounty]

These are provincial elections.....when’s the last time you had a 53% turnout for US off-yeat elections? Never?

[Yardstick]

That’s a really good point.