Why do you vote (or not vote)?

[Almighty Colin]

CJ,

It's interesting how the election results change when you change the rules of the game.

If we actually sampled in the US the Democrats would win almost every election. There are more registered Democrats than Republicans. That this doesn't happen is because Republicans are more likely to vote than Democrats or conversely those groups least likely to vote tend to consider themselves Democrats.

Yeah, the whole "Get out and vote" thing is an interesting phenomenon. "MTV had Rock the Vote". I saw P Diddy on MTV the other day on a "get out and vote" commercial. It turns out he's put together a nonpartisan group to increase voter awareness among minorities and young people- which is sort of funny because it will clearly increase voter registration in the Democrat group over the Republican.