Yesterday I posted this post correcting my previous post claiming that the voter turnout did not seem unusual in California. Well, the numbers are in, and I was right! Here’s the numbers from 2000 when 10,428,632 people voted. And here’s the numbers from 2004 when 9,944,625 people voted. That’s right, the turnout actually went down this year. See, this is what I get for allowing myself to believe I am wrong - who ever heard of such a thing… ;-).

Ah, but what about the national vote? In 2000 104,339,125 people voted, and in 2004 115,328,260. 10%. That’s it. 10%. That’s the giant animated voter turnout increase that was supposed to revolutionize our democracy. Right.

The problem is that people do not make a distinction between getting people to register (which is easy, they just have to fill out a form) and getting them to vote. The more things change, the more things stay the same. But sometimes when a meme sticks, there is just no getting rid of it - check out the toon.

In other news, I am listening to Air America today (I thought it would be entertaining after they lost - apparently Air America cannot be entertaining under any circustances). Here’s the most enligtening quote from Janeane Garofalo, “I want the Archie Bunker contingent in the cracker belt to suffer.”

And they wonder why they lost.

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