The 2014 Midterm election had the lowest turnout in 70 years, and at least then World War II was an actual excuse for the low voter turnout. Hopefully World War III doesn't break out before the polls open up again in two years.
Fix the Debt affiliate The Can Kicks Back, an astroturf austerity group backed by rich plutocrats, is hilariously in debt. Who better to tell the American people how to use its tax-generated dollars than an organization going broke?
Poll data from this past election indicates an increase in millennial voter turnout; even as articles leading up to election day speculated that voter apathy and the “enthusiasm gap” would surely yield a lower percentage of young people turning out.