As a first time witness and voter in a US political race, I can not keep quiet about my worries on how these are being held, and the threat it posts to maybe the most solid democracy in the world.
According to the blog US News Data Mine the majority of the states decreased of VEP (Voter Eligible Population) decreased almost 5 percentage points (from 41% to 36%) compared to the mid term elections of 2010, a measurement that is done between midterm elections to be able to compare pears-to-pears.
And it is not about money resources promoting the campaign. In the state of Florida, a record setting number is expected one all the fillings are accounted for.
I guess my major concern is how this budget was spent, and what is the impact on the incentive that the campaign created, specially on those under thirty years, to use their time to study, choose, and vote for any of the candidates.
When I sat down on the TV at night, I was amazed how negative the campaign was between the two major parties, blaming or accusing the other party on how bad, corrupt, liars, cheaters, and so on negative qualifications. This was the worst ever campaign I have seen in my life, and I thought I was coming from (Venezuela) a very unstable/uncertain democracy.
I really felt that there was no reason to vote for any of the candidates, as I never heard about the plans, proposals, projects, they were considering in their agenda if they won.
It is dangerous to play with a democracy like this, as I have lived a nightmare in the country I was born, with a very populistic regime which took the opportunity to fill a gap of bad political management; if in the US there is someone who can really engage with the majority of the people (the ones that did not vote (100%-36%=64%), we could have a very different scenario in the supposedly supposedly best democracy in the world.
If the traditional political parties and their campaigns in the US do not see this as a potential issue, they better watch out: IT HAS HAPPENED!
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