Rollout wrote:harrydre wrote:only 1/3 of registered voters showed up to vote!
It's hard to get 50% of people to vote in US even in general election because unlike in Africa where if my tribe is not on the table the whole region can go without food. Elections just don't have direct impact to people's lives like it has in Kenya so it's hard to get people to vote.
Hii ni uwongo, elections have a very direct impact on people, especially the poor. The person voted in will have control over what policies can pass and what wont. Case in point is Rahm Emmanuel in Chicago legislating what inner schools can stay open and which ones should be shut down. Please stop this pipe dream of painting the US as some sort of fairy land place where things work differently than in the rest of the world.
Voters didnt turn out simply because they feel disenfranchised. Obama promised alot, yet unemployment is high(especially among the poor), jobs reports are not that good, police brutality is rampant etc etc, so his base just didnt show up which translated to a Republican victory