Why are people so apetetic of politics?Do they not realise that a spoiled vote is even more valid then a vote?
606441
Do you mean APATHETIC?  They don't care because they don't think their vote makes a difference either way.
627243
Politicians have no morals.\n\n\nThey have polls instead
958206
One thing your forgot:  educated and or not educated who feel they have nothing worth it, to vote for.   In other words all you have to vote for is garbage!  People strike on voting because of this!  In a sense they have voted by not voting! Those of us vote based on the platform not  because they are Dem or Rep or because they are good looking or Gender or color!
822029
Voting apathy is only a problem for the elected representatives (MPs and councillors) of the people.  They fear that if not enough of us turn out to vote, they will feel they do not have a mandate to govern.  I think we reached that point about fifty years ago.  If the turn out is under 50 percent, how can any politician legitimately claim to have received a mandate from the people to govern them?\n\nLocal elections are a case in point - the same shipload of cut-throats get re-elected time and time again.  They draw huge expenses (at our expense) and waist their time going on various jamborees abroad to see if the wine is safe for us to drink back home.\n\nMPs are the worse scoundrels.  Many of these thieves draw expenses amounting to £150,000 pa on top of their already bloated salaries of £60,000.  God only knows what government ministers are paid - something resembling a telephone number I should think.\n\nOn the whole I think the British people are let down badly by their representatives most of whom pay little or no attention what so ever to what we the people are saying, once they're elected that is - another five years on the jolly waggon at our expense.  And to cap it all, these people want us to pay for their political parties and their profligate spending.  Oh, never mind, the tax payer will foot the bill.  VOTE NO to that by the way.
893615
May be they lost the faith in the system,and staying home make the things more complicated.If the politicians Knew that 100% of voters are going to vote they will surely behave in another way and will not take any thing for granted.
435309
Yeah, like when Kerry was going to Beat Bush? Democrats are loud mouths that participate in polls that mean DICK!\n\nThe real voters have values, work for a living and understand personal responsibility.\n\nThe democratic base is so illiterate that they can't read the ballot....maybe if it were pictures, they would have a chance.
747402
MAYBE BECAUSE THEY FEEL THEY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE!\n\nWell it is high time they begin to consider other choices.\n\nI hate throwing away my vote on independents because they seldom have a snowballs chance in hell of winning but this year I did just hoping a bunch of other people did the same to give some credibility to the independents. We need to shake up the two party system and get some good blood in office.\n\nLONG LIVE THE INDEPENDENTS.  \nOUT WITH THE BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS...........
67068
because.. uneducated people tend not to care about politics.. nor are they very good at expressing their viewpoints anyway.. \n\nsince im on the topic.. you might want to rewrite your question..
1065333
You are correct.  Many people are voting against someone rather than voting for someone.  IMHO, that is worse than not voting at all.  The "against" people are actually cancelling out the vote of someone believing in the issues.  In the last pres. election, I would ask people "who are you favoring and why?"  I didn't persuade to Dem or Rep.  But many people would say "Kerry, because I hate W. this or that, yadda, yadda."  Bill Clinton addressed a democratic convention of some sort and told them that the democratic party needs to be a party for something, not against something.  Unfortately, both parties have drifted even farther away from the center.  The right has gone too far right and the left has gone too far left.  The overall is still probably about center, but the standard devation is so huge that people spend more time arguing about something than acutally doing anything.
824899
They're in no hurry to make any statements that would commit them to a stance. They want to wait to see how the majority of voters will feel as we get closer to the Presidential elections. No sense in taking a chance of letting people know how you feel till it can really do you some good, eh?  wink, wink...nudge, nudge...
885712
There are several resons voter turnout is typically not very high. \n\nSometimes people are sick. Sometimes they are in the hospital or out of the country and do not want to go through the hassle of working on getting an absentee ballot. Sometimes people have only recently moved, and are not registered in the district in which they currently live. \n\nAnother reason voter turnout often is around only 45 percent is that people are often busy and uninformed. Most who do not vote are not opponents of the democratic system, but people who are busy with other things. I have no children or pets, and I still have missed voting on several occasions. \n\nAlso, many people do not know where their voting place is. Sometimes they receive a post card in the mail telling them where it is, but this is often viewed as "junk mail" and tossed out with the other ads from Sears, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Macy's. \n\nAlso, of course, many people are (understandably) cynical. In one of the political races near where I live there is apparently the choice between "throwing your vote away" (by voting for a third party candidate), voting for a corrupt politician, or voting for the guy who holds none of my political views. Not good, any way you slice it. Thus, it is no wonder that so few people bother to vote sometimes. \n\nBy the way, I will vote for every "D" I see on the ballot tomorrow, even if he or she is undergoing ethics investigation. After putting up with the current embarrassment of a president for six years, I am a super citizen in just being willing to vote at all!!!!!!
7505
As I understand it, one of the great strengths of a Democracy is not so much the right to vote someone into office but the right to vote them out if you are unhappy with their performance.  Many elections are foregone conclusions and people stay away from the poles.  My parents elected a state representative with only their own two votes when it was discovered that the incumbent had moved and was no longer qualified to run.  They actually favored the imcumbent but knew he only planned to run one more time then retire.  They just wanterd to get the new man's name on the ballot results for next time - but got him elected.  So every vote does count.
209915
I agree.  The probablem is that you're asking people to think.  It's too hard for the majority of Americans.  It's much easier to look up what the Republican or Democratic party says about each issue and vote for that.  I've only voted in one election (being 19 years old), and it was just a state election on several bills, but I know I voted for things that were proposed by people I very much disliked because I thought they would do good regardless of the intentions of the people who wrote them.  Even though I consider myself a Democrat (and a liberal one, at that) I'd gladly vote for a Republican if I thought he'd do a better job than the other candidates.\n\nThe thing that really gets to me here on Answers, though, is "liberal bashing."  People take the polarization of the poltical arena to the extreme.  When people vote along party lines that's one thing, but when they take that out of the voting booth and make their day-to-day life a war against the opposing political party it threatens to destroy the very foundations of our democracy.  When elections are determined by a desire to vote against the liberals or against the conservatives rather than genuine consideration of the issues, we risk making some really bad choices.  It sounds too much like the backdrop for a red state, blue state civil war.
171457
Because they are duly elected.  When only about 60% or less vote in any election, then we get government that acts as though they only have that 60% in mind.  In other words by getting closer to a 100% turnout for elections you will get politicians that will actually listen to the American Public and less to Special Interest Groups.  It is not just enough to get out and vote we must convince everyone to get out and vote, then when we speak they will listen.  Until that happens we are going have more of the same.
831155
I agree.  We do not need people voting who just "doing their civic duty".  It is more important to be an informed voter and know who you are helping put into office.
578136
It is known as the politics of fear. If you make your political opponent feared in the eyes of the electorate they will not be voted for by the masses who don't fully understand what is going on. It is very bad because it is negative campaigning and does not tell the people about what the candidates will do for the community. Jules. Lecturer Australia.
50943
Because no one wants to be the one to put themselves on the line; by showing what they believe, they risk losing votes in their next elections---->to them, that's what it's all about, the next election.