[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Maybe the reason that more people didn’t turn out for the 2004 presidential race, despite the closeness of the tally four years earlier, is that they were still in denial and distracted by “American Idol.”

American Idol runs from January to May each year. Election Day is in November. That's quite a distraction.

[discostu]

He’s got problems right at the beginning of that paragraph, 04 turn out was huge. Kerry got more votes than any candidate before and still managed to lose. 12 million more votes were cast in 2004 than in 2000. OK we still haven’t cracked 50% of the overall populace but 2004 is a bad year to pick for people not turning out to vote.