Thread: political engagement

I have a question for US citizen: we had a lot of talks about presidential campaign lately in The Conversation - many of them quite heated -, and I am interested to know how many of you are really working for it, besides political choices: who is helping in party offices, tracts distribution, organizing meetings, giving speeches and so on and so forth.


I'd like to compare the situation in Europe with the one in your country... In Switzerland, we have usually less than 50% of the population voting (but we have to vote many more times than most of the countries in the world, for our representatives and new laws ... direct democracy obliged) and very few people are really helping candidates in their campaign.


Apparently, in the US you are facing some important issues that divide more - or at least it seems so from what I read on different forums and plurk lately - but does this situation imply that also more of you are involved in the campaign?