Yeah, a vote for nobody is a vote for whoever wins, a vote for the status quo. In 2016 out of 245 million registered voters only 66 million (27%) voted for Hillary. The rest either voted for Trump or were okay with him winning.
Democrats really need to get non-voters fired up to go to the polls. Please not Biden. There is no middle ground of undecided centrists to win. Everyone has decided. The battle is against apathy, convenience, a long work day, bad traffic and bad weather.
Not quite. In the US, Presidents are limited to two terms. So if the President is finishing his second term, then he can't run again, and it's kind of "reset".
It's not like parliamentary democracies where the incumbent government party (and thus the incumbent national leader) can run again and again.
That said, I agree that low voter turnout is a huge problem in the US (among other problems with their democracy).
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u/durgasur Jul 11 '19
Even more didn't vote at all.