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Early figures show fewer Americans cast votes in 2012 race than in 2008 | StarTribune.com
According to estimates, voter turnout nationally in the 2012 election will end up being just a bit above 60% of those eligible to vote.
Voter turnout therefore is definitely less than in 2008, more so than can be accounted for by Frankenstorm Sandy .. and that's truly abysmal.
So, what does this mean?
First of all, it means that nearly 40% of eligible voters didn't show up.
And why didn't they show up?
Because the great majority of people, the "silent majority" at the center of the political spectrum, simply had no one on the Presidential ballot to get excited about, without which, they simply stayed home.
It is reasonably safe to conclude that most of the 10% of the population who are truly liberal (Democrat) and the 10% of the population who are truly conservative (Republican), they showed up, and the roughly 5% to the left of liberal and the right of conservative, including schizoid libertarians, most of these voted too, though it does appear that a number of them simply faced reality and voted for either Obama or Romney.
That leaves roughly 75% of the population, those who calibrate at the center of the political spectrum, who had to decide on the lesser of two evils or simply not to show up .. and it appears that over half of them stayed home.
It is truly sad when so many American citizens are unrepresented by the current political offerings that they either have to hold their nose to vote or the stench is so overpowering they can't get within voting distance of a polling place.
If there was ever any indication that the time was right for centrists to come together and create their own party, this was it.
And when Obama commences to resume his dismantling of America via amnesty and legalization of 20 million illegals in "strategic" increments, fueling the race-war he explictly knowingly baited in his campaign rhetoric, more borrowing from non-American sources to increase the foreign ownership of America, increased taxes, increased meaningless unessential spending, increased debt in general, doing nothing to end out-sourcing American jobs and bring our jobs back home ... oh, yes, the great silent majority will indeed become very vocal; they will have to, or, they will die forever as a political force, along with our nation, succumbing to Obama's Multi-Cultural Internationalist ideological mindset fantasy of a one-world nationless borderless U.N. government, with all workers everywhere on the globe earning the same amount of abject poverty wages, and that includes Americans.
The evolutionary phenomenological cycle of the party split, creating liberal Dems and conservative Repubs, the two polarizing so extremely as they have now to create a vast opening at the center for the next evolutionary stage in politics, the emergence of that stage to dominate and render the previous two polemics to "third party" status, the eventual split of the new centrists into two parts, their slow polarization to the degree of liberal Dems and conservative Repubs today, opening the door for another new centrist offering .. all is a normal part of historic political philosophy evolutionary change.
The new centrist offering is most definitely on its way .. let's just hope that Obama doesn't kill America off before the new centrist offering can save America.
For those idealistically fantasizing that The Libertarian Party is a player, it turned out that the comparative microscopic number of votes cast for Johnson was meaningless. Libertarians, it's time to come back to reality. No ideology that is in any way wingish is going to grow at all, and libertarianism, being a schizoid left-wing on social issues and right-wing on economic-fiscal issues, is thus simply not a player. Only in Florida did the tiny half percent of Johnson votes have an effect on letting Obama edge out Romney, and in no other state did Libertarian Party votes figure into the contest in that manner.
And, in California, Johnson garnered only twice as many votes as .. Rossane Barr. If any more proof is needed for libertarians that theirs is a lost cause, I don't know what it is.
It is time for a new centrist offering in American politics, to bring liberty and justice to all American citizens, to bring our jobs back to America, and to restore prosperity to American citizens, all American citizens, regardless of race, color or creed, and to bring America back from the brink of becoming a soverignless and dependent U.N. city-state.
Tick tock, Americans.
According to estimates, voter turnout nationally in the 2012 election will end up being just a bit above 60% of those eligible to vote.
Voter turnout therefore is definitely less than in 2008, more so than can be accounted for by Frankenstorm Sandy .. and that's truly abysmal.
So, what does this mean?
First of all, it means that nearly 40% of eligible voters didn't show up.
And why didn't they show up?
Because the great majority of people, the "silent majority" at the center of the political spectrum, simply had no one on the Presidential ballot to get excited about, without which, they simply stayed home.
It is reasonably safe to conclude that most of the 10% of the population who are truly liberal (Democrat) and the 10% of the population who are truly conservative (Republican), they showed up, and the roughly 5% to the left of liberal and the right of conservative, including schizoid libertarians, most of these voted too, though it does appear that a number of them simply faced reality and voted for either Obama or Romney.
That leaves roughly 75% of the population, those who calibrate at the center of the political spectrum, who had to decide on the lesser of two evils or simply not to show up .. and it appears that over half of them stayed home.
It is truly sad when so many American citizens are unrepresented by the current political offerings that they either have to hold their nose to vote or the stench is so overpowering they can't get within voting distance of a polling place.
If there was ever any indication that the time was right for centrists to come together and create their own party, this was it.
And when Obama commences to resume his dismantling of America via amnesty and legalization of 20 million illegals in "strategic" increments, fueling the race-war he explictly knowingly baited in his campaign rhetoric, more borrowing from non-American sources to increase the foreign ownership of America, increased taxes, increased meaningless unessential spending, increased debt in general, doing nothing to end out-sourcing American jobs and bring our jobs back home ... oh, yes, the great silent majority will indeed become very vocal; they will have to, or, they will die forever as a political force, along with our nation, succumbing to Obama's Multi-Cultural Internationalist ideological mindset fantasy of a one-world nationless borderless U.N. government, with all workers everywhere on the globe earning the same amount of abject poverty wages, and that includes Americans.
The evolutionary phenomenological cycle of the party split, creating liberal Dems and conservative Repubs, the two polarizing so extremely as they have now to create a vast opening at the center for the next evolutionary stage in politics, the emergence of that stage to dominate and render the previous two polemics to "third party" status, the eventual split of the new centrists into two parts, their slow polarization to the degree of liberal Dems and conservative Repubs today, opening the door for another new centrist offering .. all is a normal part of historic political philosophy evolutionary change.
The new centrist offering is most definitely on its way .. let's just hope that Obama doesn't kill America off before the new centrist offering can save America.
For those idealistically fantasizing that The Libertarian Party is a player, it turned out that the comparative microscopic number of votes cast for Johnson was meaningless. Libertarians, it's time to come back to reality. No ideology that is in any way wingish is going to grow at all, and libertarianism, being a schizoid left-wing on social issues and right-wing on economic-fiscal issues, is thus simply not a player. Only in Florida did the tiny half percent of Johnson votes have an effect on letting Obama edge out Romney, and in no other state did Libertarian Party votes figure into the contest in that manner.
And, in California, Johnson garnered only twice as many votes as .. Rossane Barr. If any more proof is needed for libertarians that theirs is a lost cause, I don't know what it is.
It is time for a new centrist offering in American politics, to bring liberty and justice to all American citizens, to bring our jobs back to America, and to restore prosperity to American citizens, all American citizens, regardless of race, color or creed, and to bring America back from the brink of becoming a soverignless and dependent U.N. city-state.
Tick tock, Americans.