According to a recent article in The Skidmore News, students on campus are pushing dangerous levels of not giving a shit. In the recent November 8 local elections, only forty of the hundreds of registered voters on campus showed up to the polls. Skidmore Democrats president Bryn Schockmel ’12 attributed the low turnout to a “general apathetic view of local town politics,” adding that “some students believe Saratoga Policy has little effect on their daily lives.” What a bunch of goddamn layabouts we all are.
But seriously! Overlooking the fact that “voter apathy” is a staggeringly vague and broad term that gets thrown around a lot and doesn’t really mean anything, on a city scale, these numbers are definitely a little disheartening. Of the 18,200 registered voters, only 6,373 voted last week, which indicates a widespread problem in the county, beyond Skidmore.
