How The Donald Helps
Donald Trump may - in his own roundabout way - be helping the American electoral process. Because even in hotly contested presidential years, 40% of the people don't vote. In fact two months before the last midterms, polls showed that less than 50% of the people even knew there was a midterm. But, with The Donald, more and more people are aware that we really do have a presidential election coming in 2016, and that may just result in a few more people being interested enough to actually vote for whomever.
One of the (many) reasons the Super Bowl is our most highly followed event are the many unique stories leading up to it. Wouldn't it be wild, wacky and wonderful for democracy, if the presidential Election Day received the same level of interest, ratings and participation as our National Football Championship Day.
Donald Trump may - in his own roundabout way - be helping the American electoral process. Because even in hotly contested presidential years, 40% of the people don't vote. In fact two months before the last midterms, polls showed that less than 50% of the people even knew there was a midterm. But, with The Donald, more and more people are aware that we really do have a presidential election coming in 2016, and that may just result in a few more people being interested enough to actually vote for whomever.
One of the (many) reasons the Super Bowl is our most highly followed event are the many unique stories leading up to it. Wouldn't it be wild, wacky and wonderful for democracy, if the presidential Election Day received the same level of interest, ratings and participation as our National Football Championship Day.
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