Since 1962, the percentage of eligible voters picking Democratic and Republican nominees for governor and U.S. Senate has been declining to less than 10% per party. The percentages are even lower for U.S. House and state legislature primaries, Gans says.As noted in an excerpt from the Michigan Messenger yesterday: "we spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to have the state run the nomination votes for the two major parties." And then no one even votes in them!
Mar 17, 2010
Voters Abandoning Democratic and Republican Party Primaries, Taxpayers Continue Funding the Charade
From USA Today, via The Whig:
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