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However, each semester, some Harvard classes get an unexpectedly large turnout. What happens when the students don't fit in the classroom...
Between municipal, state and federal elections and their primaries, American voters go to the polls at least once a year--this year Massachusetts residents will vote three times. With all this time spent voting, American voter turnout is abysmal. And while everyone has been trumpeting ideas to help bring disaffected voters back to into the booths--especially the young who, according to a recent IOP survey, distrust politics and politicians in record numbers--no one has suggested that people might simply be tired of politics. Politics as campaigning, that...
People would vote more if they were made to vote less. In countries where voting happens only once every few years voter turnout is far more impressive than our dismal returns. In Britain, where voters face major elections only once every five or six years and have no primaries, turnout in the 1997 general election was a whopping 71.5 percent, according to The Guardian...
College students, unfortunately, are painted by older generations as apathetic about politics. A low voter turnout, even in presidential elections, reinforces this perception. But on a campus such as Harvard, this apathy--whether real or imagined--is downright outrageous. So do your part: Cut this page out and stick it on the Microfridge. Register to vote and file for an absentee ballot today. And, in this crucial election year, make your voice heard...
Ross Perot was included in the 1992 debates and his participation contributed to high voter turnout and won him some 20 percent of the popular vote. Despite the fact that one in five voters supported Perot in 1992, the Commission kept him out of the 1996 debates--he did not even win a tenth of the popular vote that year. Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura was polling around 8 percent before his state's televised debate--it was his performance in that debate which helped him win the election, gaining around a third of the popular vote...