Record Turnout

by anderson

Ed Morrissey should really stop making statements like this before all the votes have been counted, even if his motivation is simply to play down the Obama victory.

...this election saw 3.24 million fewer votes than four years ago. Far from being more energized, the nation appeared to be more apathetic.

As they say, appearances can be deceiving.

Now Morrissey looks entirely foolish in light of this news:

More than 130 million people turned out to vote Tuesday, the most ever to vote in a presidential election.

With ballots still being counted in some precincts into Wednesday morning, an estimated 64 percent of the electorate turned out, making 2008 the highest percentage turnout in generations.

In 2004, 122.3 million voted in what was then the highest recorded turnout in the contest between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).