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This originally appeared on Robert Reich’s blog.
The largest political party in America isn’t the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It’s the Party of Non-Voters.
94 million Americans who were eligible to vote in the 2016 election didn’t vote. That’s a bigger number than the number who voted either for Trump or for Clinton.
All of which means that voter turnout will determine who wins control of Congress next November, and who becomes president in 2020. Turnout is everything.
This is why it’s so important for you to vote — and urge everyone you know to vote, too.
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written 15 books, including the best sellers “Aftershock”, “The Work of Nations,” and”Beyond Outrage,” and, his most recent, “The Common Good.” He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, “Inequality For All.” He’s also co-creator of the Netflix original documentary “Saving Capitalism.”
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