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How many people, let's say specifically 18-29-year-old in America, keep up on national and/or world news every day? Consider that just about 100M of 236M eligib
by InternetUser 9y ago
How many people, let's say specifically 18-29-year-old in America, keep up on national and/or world news every day? Consider that just about 100M of 236M eligible voters did NOT bother to vote [0][1]; that is 42% of the eligible electorate who either didn't care at all, or figured that Trump and Hillary were the same, or that it didn't matter to their own lives, or that elections are a sham, or that their own district or state would go a certain way no matter what. But from my own experience, the first of those reasons is the most common; anyone I know who doesn't care about political news (even while they may avidly follow sports news or entertainment news or human-interest news about the latest viral YouTube video) responds to me bringing up politics, whether face-to-face or online, with a comment like "Who cares."
[0] Washington Post: About 100 million people couldn’t be bothered to vote this year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/about-100-million-people-couldnt-be-bothered-to-vote-this-year/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/about...
[1] A reported 137,100,229 people voted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016#Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...