Useful stats, not sure if the drop to 129 million in 2012 from 131 million is that significant of a drop.
If you have a job you are generally not too wasted to go vote at the end of a hard days work. With more people out of work and given up on finding work - well why bother?
Voter turnout boomed under Bush, not under McCain or Romney. There, fixed it!
R Limbaugh and others keep saying that Romney lost 4 million (evangelical) votes.
I don’t see a statistic that supports that.
The nearest I could find was that McCain lost about 2.1 million over GW Bush.
2000: GW Bush 50.4 million [Gore 50.99 million]
2004: GW Bush 62.0 million
2008: J McCain 59.9 million
2012: M Romney 60.9 million
Can I be the first to say it?
Blame Bush!!!
You ain’t seen decline until Jeb gets the GOP nomination.
And .. an interesting stat from the 2004 election was over 4 MILLION MORE VOTERS turned out for Bush’s 2nd election.
That was the BASE .. who suddenly realized that if they didn’t vote, we were going to have John Kerry as President.
And .. again in 2010 and again in 2014, the base came to the rescue. Too bad the GOPe still think they’re smarter than we are.
Boomed in 2006 when we were taken to the cleaners big time. Not impressed.
Voter turnout does not always mean it was due to “positives” about any incumbent, before or after an election. It can just as much be an increase in those desiring to definitely vote AGAINST someone. It is a level of voter excitement, that’s all, and excitement can be from positive, or from negative directions, depending on the individual.