Ennui versus democracy–Part I: Office holders…

[Note from Steve: after Tuesday’s post, you’re probably looking for something shorter, so I broke this into two parts….]

I don’t live in NYC, but one thing bothered me about the recent mayoral primaries there—the low numbers of people voting. The same thing happened where I live in NJ for the senate primaries a few weeks ago—not many in the town voted. While primaries don’t have large voter turnouts traditionally, these elections are indicative of a general and understandable trend. Voters in...