The early vote.
Turnout for the November November: see month. election was, as we all know, very high.
What is less well-known is that turnout for the primaries was very low.
According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
3. Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American
Electorate Electorate may refer to: - A constituency, the group of people entitled to vote in an election.
- An electoral district, the geographic area of a particular election.
- The dominion of an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire.
, "turnout in states which held primal-les for both
parties reached a record low." This is, not to put too fine a point
on it, crazy. The presidential candidates we choose in the primaries are
the ones we're stuck with.
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