On December 13, Professor Michael P. McDonald and his United States Elections Project posted data on voter turnout for last month’s election. See here. It shows that Texas had the lowest turnout of any state, although the District of Columbia was even lower than Texas.
If one adds up the vote for the top office on the ballot in each state, in November 2010, one finds only 89,073,836 votes were cast. By contrast, in November 2008, the number of votes cast for President was 131,313,820. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
It was a midterm election. Texas will go back up to +100,000,000 by 2012.
Turnout math is more than dubious due to —
1. ILLEGAL aliens aka INVADERS being somehow counted — especially in CA, AZ, NM and TX.
2. LOTS of functional illiterates — i.e. lots of folks can NOT even fill in a voter registration form or ballot correctly — i.e. are too embarrassed to do any voting stuff.
3. Folks constantly moving around — even in this Great Depression II.
How many of the missing mere 40 million were Donkey voters in 2008 ??? — i.e. having about ZERO respect for non-Prez year candidates and issues ???
Thanks again Repo Dem for your insightful comments.