90 million Americans voted in the 2010 mid-term congressional elections. 220 million didn't. -----------------------------------------------------
Newsflash - We do not allow every man, woman and child to vote. Duh! Turnout was MUCH higher Tuesday than in the 06 midterms, when the dems won. Where was this idiot Knapp then? Its a rhetorical question. We know On Nov 4, 11:09 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > "A majority of those who could have voted refused to. A supermajority either > chose not to vote or weren't allowed to vote," says Knapp. "Yet for the next > two years, that politician will claim to 'represent,' and to possess > legitimate authority to rule, all of them."2010 Mid-Terms: Only 29% Consent > to be Governed by the 112th US Congress90 million Americans voted in the 2010 > mid-term congressional elections. 220 million didn't. So much for the consent > of the governed.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPRLog (Press Release)–Nov 04, 2010– > According to the Associated Press, 90 million Americans -- only 42% of > registered voters -- pulled the lever for a congressional candidate on > Tuesday. That's just a hair under 29% of the US population of 310.6 million. > "So much for the consent of the governed," says Thomas L. Knapp of the X2012 > Project (http://x2012.us). "In a typical district, the next US Representative > was chosen by, at most, one out of four or five registered voters and less > than one in six of his or her alleged constituents." > "A majority of those who could have voted refused to. A supermajority either > chose not to vote or weren't allowed to vote," says Knapp. "Yet for the next > two years, that politician will claim to 'represent,' and to possess > legitimate authority to rule, all of them." > The X2012 Project aims to put the lie to those claims. Launched as the polls > closed on Tuesday evening, X2012 is a "branding campaign" which allows > non-voters to dispute the conventional wisdom that their abstention is rooted > in apathy or that it constitutes implicit consent to the existing system of > government. By the time 2012 rolls around, the project hopes to have millions > of non-voters on the record as non-consenting. > A July Rasmussen poll found that only 23% of Americans believe the US > government functions with "the consent of the governed" -- the criterion of > legitimacy set forth by America's founders in the Declaration of Independence. > "Thomas Jefferson didn't say 'a majority of the governed,'" says Knapp. "Even > a significant minority of dissenters calls the legitimacy of a government > into question. Some estimates say that fewer than one third of Americans > supported the Revolution at its beginning. We've got a better case against > John Boehner, Harry Reid and Barack Obama than Tom Paine had against George > III." > # # # > The mission of The 2012 Project is to provide a popular/identifiable brand > for, facilitate media coverage of, and support grassroots activism toward, a > boycott of the 2012 US general election.http://bit.ly/ahdbqn -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
