I think that most people didn't realize what day primaries are held in WI. Especially our young people. When times are tough and families are living check to check- it is easy to forget about what day is what and it is easy to believe that your vote doesn't matter when the last presidential elections proved that votes don't matter- connections and hidden agendas and money does. When you are trying to survive and keep your family housed, clothed, fed, educated and healthy (at a high price thanks to our current health care system) and living under the constant threat of terrorism - you are too exhausted to stand up and make a difference. It is easier to control undereducated, demoralized, scared people. And a vast majority of us americans sadly fall under one of those categories at least once in our lifetime. Every body knows that politicians make promises that they can't/don't/won't keep, and that they use our fears and hopes to their advantage to win our vote. If the Gazette or some news source could prove to us that politics can be controlled fairly, honestly and that we can take the power out of the wallet and back on the ballot then I think there would have been a higher turnout.

Maybe people don't vote because they are just so fed up with partisan politics.
One has to look no further than 50 miles up the road to Madison and that ridiculous fiasco of passing a state budget. I think that carries over to the national level as well.
Some people have just had enough and can't see the point when it's always the same old, same old, no matter who's in office.

I don't think for most people it's a issue of laziness. I think that with most people they are just uninformed and don't know anything about the election. Maybe if the news and debates were are "real" as reality TV more people would take the time to educate themselves. Put I am glad to see that the numbers are up.

I feel voting is my responsibility as a US citizen. Most people are just to lazy to get off their behinds to vote or they feel they wont make a difference

Wow, even in Iraq, where voting can result in your death, 70% risk their life to cast a vote.

Only 37%? this is a measure of who actually cares who their elected officials are. Weak, but predictable.

It is sad that more people don't vote. Look at the elections in Iraq. These people had to fear for their lives in order to cast a vote and we are to fearful of the weather. It's a shame.

I'm glad the "uninformed" don't vote.

People must think things are be going well if only 37% cared vote. I think 63% are dangerously uninformed myself.