[speaker001:] Joe what do you think the election turnout's gonna be this year do you think it's gonna be typically
[speaker002:] uh this this year uh I think it's interesting uh we I mean there's so many candidates still that uh we have well there's uh we have uh uh Clinton and uh uh Brown of course yeah and then uh I don't know if you've heard much about this this other guy the independent Perot
[speaker001:] Brown oh yes he's from Dallas
[speaker002:] he may be drawing off some uh Republican votes and uh so it seem George Bush has completely locked up the republican although I think I don't
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] I guess he has but
[speaker001:] if do you think there's gonna be enough excitement that we'll have more people voting
[speaker002:] uh I don't know I think that's I think that's hard to say I know uh Clinton and Brown are both trying to go after what whatever the block vote whatever that's supposed to be and uh I don't know I I think it'll be interesting I know a a lot of people have you know are are starting to feel are are more you know with the recession uh recession and everything I think a lot more people are starting to uh become more politically actively I mean
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I think I think there will be more why what do you think
[speaker001:] well I I don't know I I think in terms of uh the national elections the election later this year since Perot is from Dallas and if he gets on the
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] uh ballot I think there we that we will have the larger percentage of voter turnout than usual
[speaker002:] oh you see if yeah right right
[speaker001:] but I I think it's pathetic that only half of the people in the country that are eligible tend to vote in the national elections
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I and I think it represents uh malaise due to well my vote doesn't count it doesn't matter anyway it's it's really I think it's more of a problem in the local elections
[speaker002:] right yeah yeah I agree yeah yeah I yeah I definitely agree with you there I mean it's people I mean that that don't care much about uh uh like federal things or you know things you know uh like the deficit people who don't who don't really care about stuff like that really don't have any clues to what's going on like right under right in their own towns or counties or state or whatever so yeah I agree with you yeah I think people are even you know
[speaker001:] I it's it's too bad I you have more control over your local politicians
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you you'd think people would be more I don't know because they're more in touch uh they're you know geographically I mean uh geographically hm
[speaker001:] easier to get a hold of it's easier they're easier to get a hold of it's not a long distance call for one thing
[speaker002:] exactly sure yeah and I mean most of them are even you know you'll see them you know you know however many times a year they're actually in your city you know in your neighborhood or whatever but uh yeah I guess yeah it is interesting how that works and people just I don't know they just
[speaker001:] do you vote
[speaker002:] uh yeah yeah yeah I do vote uh I know if I when I first registered uh I guess with the last election uh I was uh in my late teens so I only really registered and voted for the uh who was that then that was uh Dukakis and uh uh yeah Dukakis and Bush I guess it was the last time that was I guess that was the first presidential election I voted in but uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] at that time I was really apolitical I mean you know that and like you said about uh local uh government or local uh politics I was just you know not in in touch at all
[speaker001:] well I I think in your case college students in general pretend not to pay that much attention to the local politics I think they've got enough going on
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's that's that's true yeah
[speaker001:] that's not a part of your world
[speaker002:] no no that's true um
[speaker001:] campus elections are more important I suppose
[speaker002:] campus campus yeah yeah yeah that's that's that's another that's another thing too
[speaker001:] but there there's voter apathy there isn't there
[speaker002:] yeah well I'd say so sure I I know I've never voted in any of the just uh and why I I don't know I just don't see any I don't uh I don't see any importance at all in my vote in the you know in that in that even that smaller uh
[speaker001:] isn't
[speaker002:] uh arena of politics I don't even see uh you know any kind of influence or anything or any you know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh um but uh federally definitely I I think everybody should be you know uh should definitely be uh uh aware of uh you know the presidential elections they should be you know uh
[speaker001:] participate a little more but then uh
[speaker002:] yeah yeah they should they should participate uh you know
[speaker001:] but also think about this if they're dumb enough to not vote do we really want them to vote
[speaker002:] um yeah yeah but but but I I I think it'll be interesting to see you know uh I think the people that vote are the people who um jeez now now that's hard to say it's hard to say who votes and and why um
[speaker001:] some of us I think do it out of habit
[speaker002:] yeah I I mean
[speaker001:] that's a good habit to have
[speaker002:] yeah oh it is it is and uh