Voter Disinterest Quotes

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republicans in office demoralize our base because the only way we win now is by driving turnout among our voters. And if our voters just think we're weak, we don't fight, we don't do the things we say when we get elected? Then there is no future for us.

Like anyone from any party who has stood for election, I've often had the depressing experience of meeting an 18- or 19-year-old new voter on the doorstep and being told: 'I'm not interested in voting' or 'none of this matters to me.'

Predicting voter turnout is not hard, it’s impossible.

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

He's gone around the country stirring up apathy.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

In more stable political times, a low turnout in the E.U. elections was a luxury we could afford.

People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.