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Originally Posted by Tommychrk
I have to arrest you on this one. In the 2004 presidential election a total of
122,267,553 million votes were given. That is a bit more than 25% of the total electorate dont you think? I dont know the number of those that are eligable to vote but considering there are close to 300 million people in the US it is way above 25% 
Source: Wikipedia: United States presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Point taken Tommy. I didn't really know the exact figures, as here we learn (from the media) usually that the turn up for elections in the US is by far not as big as here for e.g. our paliament elections.
In my post I have just reflected the average feeling here about the USA and it's political leaders as well as some rules they have there.
In Holland there is quite a large group of people, who are amazed and stereotype Amricans (again as a general statement) as very superficial and don't know much about the world outside their borders.
As an example, I can say that on countless times I was asked if Holland was the capital of Amsterdam!!! Or are you from Holland in Michigan?
Since the subject is "country perceptions", we talk about perceptions and not about personal opinions. I do know quite some Americans both privatly and through work. I must say some of these perceptions are very true, but let's be honest most individual people are just great persons.