% Turnout for Voting Age Population?

[Eraserhead]

For comparison:

1960: 63%
1964: 62%
1968: 61%
1972: 55%
1976: 54%
1980: 53%
1984: 53%
1980: 50%
1984: 53%
1988: 50%
1992: 55%
1996: 49%
2000: 51%
2004: 57%
2008: 57%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_presidential_elections

[Eraserhead]

I think its going to be low...51% like 2000

Me too. I'm wondering if it has a shot at falling below '96 personally. I wouldn't bet on it just yet but who knows? It's definitely not touching 2004/08.

[Eraserhead]

I think its going to be low...51% like 2000

Me too. I'm wondering if it has a shot at falling below '96 personally. I wouldn't bet on it just yet but who knows? It's definitely not touching 2004/08.

Why not 2004? Both have polarizing incumbents despised by their opponents and both have uninspiring challengers.

There is nowhere near the passion on either side that there was in 2004. 2004's turnout was just barely under 2008's. It was the first post-9/11 presidential election and the Iraq War was extremely bloody and divisive at the time.

[Eraserhead]

This such a sorry election that i think it might be below 45%.

That'd be hilarious but it won't happen. Obama is still going to turn out a better than average amount of blacks and Romney is still going to turn out a lot of angry white men.