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The Politics Guys

Ask The Politics Guys: Voter Fatigue?

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

News, Education, Politics

4.4783 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This week’s Ask The Politics Guys question comes from Chris, who lives near Chester, England. Does the US electorate suffer from voter fatigue due to democratic overload?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

0:17.3

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

0:23.5

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

0:30.1

This week's Ask the Politics Guide's question comes from Chris, who lives near Chester, England.

0:36.3

Hi, Chris.

0:37.0

Another from England.

0:37.8

Yeah, we have a big, yeah, it's one of our biggest international sites.

0:42.3

Okay, Chris writes, does the U.S. suffer from voter fatigue due to democratic overload?

0:49.7

Well, I, for one, I'm exhausted.

0:52.9

We might be a little atypical, but yeah, I think it's an interesting question.

0:57.6

I think it's especially interesting coming from one of our listeners in the UK.

1:03.6

Because, you know, about three quarters of our audience roughly comes from the United States.

1:09.2

And so for us, I think maybe the pace of elections

1:12.9

of national elections is, you know, we're used to that. But, you know, I did a little research,

1:18.7

and we're a little different from a lot of other countries. Like, for instance, Jay, you know this,

1:24.5

and most of our audience we know, we have. We have national elections every two years, right?

1:28.9

Right.

1:29.5

So over the past 30 years, we've had, do the math, 15 national elections, right?

1:36.1

Right.

1:36.4

Whereas in the UK, they've only had seven.

1:39.5

Wow.

1:40.1

Yeah, they had general elections in 2015, 2010, 2005, you get the point, you know, so forth.

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