{"id":170,"date":"2007-04-02T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/04\/02\/civic-participation-index\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:02:50","slug":"civic-participation-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/04\/civic-participation-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic participation index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got this rather stunning email from Bob Hall and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy-nc.org\">Democracy North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MOST CITIZENS NOT VOTING IN NORTH CAROLINA<br \/>\nYoung Adults More Likely to Be Binge Drinkers Than Voters<\/p>\n<p>A new &#8220;Civic Participation Index for North Carolina&#8221; shows that only two out of five adults [40.8 percent] bother to vote in the typical state election.<\/p>\n<p>The Index says that young North Carolinians age 18 to 25 are half as likely to vote as their grandparents &#8212; and more likely to engage in binge drinking than participate in elections.<\/p>\n<p>And it says more men own guns than cast ballots.<\/p>\n<p>For the Release and Index, go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy-nc.org\/improving\/CPI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.democracy-nc.org\/improving\/CPI.pdf<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nAlso, here&#8217;s a state-by-state chart for voter turnout, 1984-2004:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy-nc.org\/improving\/voterturnout.pdf\">http:\/\/www.democracy-nc.org\/improving\/voterturnout.pdf<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got this rather stunning email from Bob Hall and Democracy North Carolina. MOST CITIZENS NOT VOTING IN NORTH CAROLINA Young Adults More Likely to Be Binge Drinkers Than Voters A new &#8220;Civic Participation Index for North Carolina&#8221; shows that only two out of five adults [40.8 percent] bother to vote in the typical state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}