March 09, 2004

Democrat voter participation lowest ever

Voter participation in the front-loaded Democratic primaries that helped turn John Kerry into the party's presumptive nominee was among the lowest ever, according to a study released Tuesday.

An estimated 10.3 million people in 19 states and the District of Columbia cast votes in Democratic primaries through March 2, constituting just 11.4 percent of the electorate, said the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate.

Every time Chris Matthews covered one of the Dim primaries on BSDNC (MSNBC to them) he'd just about wet his pants with excitement over "record voter turnouts."
Looks like the reality is quite different.
This is what the American electorate does--even the hard core Democrats-- when the candidates have nothing but hatred (for Bush) and revenge (for "Florida 2000") as a platform.
Once you get past the Bush-hate, the Lib Dims have no plans or proposals for anything else the voters are really concerned about, like our national security, or how to handle international terrorism and the spread of WMDs around the globe.