{"id":11508,"date":"2011-10-07T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11508"},"modified":"2011-10-07T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:06:49","slug":"expect-to-hear-a-lot-of-analysis-from-the-voter-turnout-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/expect-to-hear-a-lot-of-analysis-from-the-voter-turnout-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect to hear a lot of &#8220;analysis&#8221; from the Voter Turnout Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2011\/10\/07\/ontarians-voting-with-their-butts-for-nobody\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Cosh<\/a> gets in a pre-emptive strike against the folks for whom 100% voter participation is the only worthy result:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Get ready for the Voter Turnout Nerds: you\u2019ll be hearing from them today. Oh yes. It would not be like them to stay silent after an Ontario election in which fewer than half of technically eligible voters appear to have cast a ballot. The Turnout Nerds don\u2019t care who won or who lost: they care about the mathematical purity of the electoral exercise. They\u2019ll be everywhere you look in the media, ready with their diagnoses and their nostrums and, most of all, their disapproval.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the people who have let us down, they\u2019ll tell us; it\u2019s the <em>government<\/em> that has let the <em>people<\/em> down, fostering apathy (most heinous of all political sins) by failing to implement Brilliant Idea X or Salutary Scheme Y. But at what point do the people, apparently so deaf to the allure of electoral reforms and renovations, stop believing the Turnout Nerd\u2019s comforting assurances of goodwill? Nothing seems to raise the holy quantity of Turnout very effectively. Any momentary rise seems to be followed by a more precipitate plunge. Are the electorate and the Turnout Nerds headed toward a frightful mutual collision with terrible truths about democracy?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Cosh gets in a pre-emptive strike against the folks for whom 100% voter participation is the only worthy result: Get ready for the Voter Turnout Nerds: you\u2019ll be hearing from them today. Oh yes. It would not be like them to stay silent after an Ontario election in which fewer than half of technically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[188,87,289],"class_list":["post-11508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-ontario","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2ZC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11509,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508\/revisions\/11509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}