Why You Should Be a Full-Time Voter

Last time, we started off the customary pre-election pep-talk with some Pew Research analysis on voting. Only about a third of Americans voted in every one of the last three national elections.

A huge block of Americans (about another third) voted intermittently, which means that elections can often be determined by the intermittent voters when they decide to show up. In my efforts to convince all the part-timer voters out there to level up, I dealt with the common argument that “my single vote doesn’t matter.”