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Survey: 90 Million People Don’t Plan to Vote in the Next Election: Why Aren’t They Showing Up?

A USA Today/Suffolk University poll shows that more than 2/3 of the people who don’t plan to vote support President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney.  Even more significantly, 80% of these people feel that government plays an important role in their lives.

In spite of this, many of these people don’t plan to vote.  Many say that they don’t have time, or that the candidates don’t excite them.   They also feel that Congress never gets anything done anyway, at least not when it comes to doing things that can make their lives better.

“I don’t think Obama helped us as much as he promised,” says John Harrington, one of the people surveyed.

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One Response to Survey: 90 Million People Don’t Plan to Vote in the Next Election: Why Aren’t They Showing Up?

  1. Sankara Reply

    August 16, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    He never should’ve bombed Libya and helped murder Ghaddafy. Then the icing on the cake was signing NDAA making sure it included being able to arrest American Citizens without Due Process. If a White President had done that most of us would have stormed the White House. I’m not a hypocrite so I can’t vote for the man. Romney is worse but at this point it’s about looking myself in the mirror.

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