Voter Turnout, 2008 vs. 2010
By Taylor Marvin
Ezra Klein has a great graphic covering the differences between voter turnout between the 2008 and 2010 elections.
Takeaway message- don’t count on youth votes outside of high-profile presidential elections. They just aren’t there.
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Smoke & Stir 
I think you need to show these results in relation to the considerable overall voter (reduction)suppression that happened in 2010. In 2008 Americans were believing they could make a better world so %65 to %70+ turned out 2008 vs %50 to %55 turnout in the face of massive corporate money dumped to push 2 ideas: A) that they should be angry and blame mostly in-office Democrats B) that everyone in office is corrupt(no matter how big a lie had to be told) so why vote at all (unless you are angry).ALSO the items of student voter registration problems are disconcerting.
Both repubs and dems responsibl-e for this should go to jail. I hate to say this as a consevativ-e but the wall street protestors have a point on rich greed. Maybe it’ll make a difference but I’m not holding my breath. guild wars 2 items
I’m not surprised that youths aren’t voting, who would they vote for? There’s no one out there that represents their interests.