Q&A with a professor after his outburst
Urback: I didn’t vote for Jack, but I did respect him.
Sure, apathy is up. But the numbers indicate it’s not all bad news.
Why are party leaders ignoring a group that is ripe for the political moulding?
Students’ engagement with abstract political issues faces a test this week
The BC Stats 2009 Elections BC Post-Election Voter/Non-Voter Satisfaction Survey adds some heft, I think, to my post yesterday on the disengagement of younger adults from political life. Only 51 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in British Columbia’s May 12 election, a dismal turnout.
It’s hard to jump into an electoral system where you feel worthless and ignored
Lawrence Martin laments that all the kids want to do is laugh at their smut. Alison Loat suggests the kids and their smut are not the source of the problem. David Eaves suspects elderly columnists need to get their bifocal prescriptions adjusted and look harder. Loat wraps the discussion into one smutless blog post and concludes:
LONG-WEEKEND ELECTION DAY ROUNDUP!