I think I have a new explanation for low US voter turn-out. If the November election had instead happened a month or two ago, I think turn-out would have been high - it's obviously an important election and we have the memory of last time's narrow margins to coax us to the polls. The longer this goes on, though, the lower each campaign stoops. By November, we may just see voters staying home en masse not through apathy but through disgust.
Posted by dichroic at September 9, 2004 01:49 PMI sympathize with you completely. The same thing is starting to happen in our federal politics in Canada, but by law our election campaigning can only last 36 days which doesn't give them the time to get as nasty as they probably could.
Makes healing rifts simpler, too.
Maybe campaign time limits might work there, too, eh?
Posted by: Marn, eh at September 10, 2004 03:28 PM