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More than 80 million to sit out election.

Yikes, looks bad for our great president..:{>:

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These Americans are not likely to make their voices heard on Election Day because they are paying attention to other things and don’t have faith in the process. Sixty-one percent could not correctly name the current vice president. good, they don't know about Biden gaffs

Seventy-nine percent think the federal government plays an important role in their lives, but 59 percent say they don’t pay much attention to politics because “nothing ever gets done - it’s a bunch of empty promises,” and 54 percent say they don’t pay much attention because politics “is so corrupt.”

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Getting them to go to the polls, however, is the challenge. Still, Obama has the upper hand.

Of those who said they would support Obama if they did vote, 85 percent said they would be encouraged to register or even cast a ballot if they knew their vote could help swing a close election. Just 70 percent of those who support Romney said they would turn out to help swing the election in his favor.

The nationwide survey polled 800 adults in live telephone interviews between July 30 and Aug. 8. Fifty-two percent said there was a 50-50 chance they would vote in this year’s election and 44 percent said they were not likely to vote. Four percent were undecided.
Of those who said they are registered to vote but unlikely to do so, 44 percent said they voted for Obama in 2008 and 20 percent said they backed McCain OUCH

http://www.marconews.com/news/2012/a...ma-poll-finds/

yeah, so many people have no clue. can't name one member of the scotus-can't name their congressman, their senators-probably most don't know their governor. not surprised that many don't know the vp-probably in line with naming the sec of state.
when i talk with people from places like canada, they tell me that they know more about our govt than many of us do-and they're right.
quick, without looking, name canada's prime minister-or england's.

Canada, no one knows because he is not particularly important in the world, LOL.
GB, some might know this week due to the Olympics.

American voters are notoriously lazy and ill-informed. Package those numbers with the 5 million legally registered citizen voters that will be purposely disenfranchised, and few have room to complain about what's happening in this country.

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As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, a woman approached Benjamin Franklin and reportedly asked, “Mr. Franklin, what have you designed for us in there?” Franklin retorted, “A republic madam…if you can keep it.”

Voters have 100% responsibility for the government they get.

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Originally Posted by bigrun (Post 883870)

Yikes, looks bad for our great president..:{>: