Many Americans who didn’t vote in this year’s midterm elections say they opted out due to a dislike of politics or a feeling their vote wouldn’t matter, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. Although turnout in this year’s midterms was higher than it’s been in a century, about half the voting-eligible public didn’t turn out. Nonvoters span every conceivable demographic group but tend to skew younger, poorer and less white than those who do turn out. As a group, nonvoters also tend to be generally disengaged from public affairs and cynical about the government and their own roles in civic life. (Nonvoters could select multiple reasons they didn’t vote.)

Source: Huffington Post December 18, 2018 01:18 UTC