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@BowsacNoodle @ThatWouldBeTelling @brad @idea_enjoyer @lichelordgodfrey @meowski

The outcome of an election is not determined by those who vote, but by those who don’t vote. Since 1945 or so, we have had pretty close elections, with not much more than half of the people voting. In the 1968 election about 80 million voted, and about 50 million qualified to vote did not. The outcome was determined by the 50 million who didn’t vote. If you could have got 2 percent of the nonvoters to the polls to vote for your candidate, you could have elected him. And that has been true of most of our recent elections. It’s the ones who don’t vote who determine the outcome.

Source: http://www.carrollquigley.net/Lectures/The_Mythology_of_American_Democracy.htm