> Yann Morvan wrote:
>
> > I don't get why people lament the percentages that right-wingers get,
> > given the tiny turnouts.
>
> I love the talk of tiny turnouts in EP elections. I'm not disputing it,
> but here in the states our last *national* parliamentary election - the
> 2006 off-year election, which determined the entire House of
> Representatives and one third of the Senate - had lower turnout: 40%
And the point is...?
SA seems to be arguing that because elections in the US -- which are, of course, highly significant by definition -- have low turnout, then low turnout must not be a good reason to take the recent EP elections with a grain of salt.
There is, of course, an alternative way to solve this equation. But it involves a certain lese-majeste toward the long-running US electoral soap opera.
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