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Originally posted by onetime2
That only counts registered voters. Try adding in those that could be registered but choose not to be. 105 million turned out with 205,000,000 residents over the age of 18 (granted not all can vote but most could if they wanted to).
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76% of the Voting Age Population was registered to vote, and only about 60% of them showed up.
The Knight Ridder poll presumably did not take into account registration status. If only 17% of the total VAP understands the basics of the Middle East events, that means only 34,850,000 do. Even if
every single one of these people showed up at the polls, they would make up only 33% of the turnout.
My point is that with such vast ignorance, the end result is your voting majority are going to reflect this ignorance.
Here are the '00 voter turnout statistics, for anyone who wants to challenge my math.
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2000 vap: 205,815,000
2000 reg: 156,421,311
% reg of vap: 76
turnout: 105,586,274
% to reg: 67.5
% to vap: 51.3
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