I live in an area that is otherwise political... and unsurprisingly, even admitted by The LA Times, there was less voter turn-out this year. Where I live, I don't see any posters or pins or brochures around election time, although I did bump into some rare Ron Paul supporters two months ago.
We live in a time in which people are questioning politics and the "1%" more than ever, and the World Wide Web has made it easier and harder at the same time. Virtually all of us can access revealing information but also be tracked for doing so. We can automatically look up Romney's past (er, flip-flopping) views at the touch of a button. We can easily watch the 2008 Vice Presidential debates so that we can remind ourselves of how Palin is like. We can look at old birth documents to determine for ourselves whether the ad nauseum"Birther" movement is even worth it. And while we can access this information, it isn't something we do in secret.
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