Study: Georgia ranks 27th in political engagement | Online Athens

With the general election just a week away, and the eyes of the nation focused partly on Georgia and its pick-’em contests for a U.S. Senate seat and the governor’s office, research by the financial website WalletHub has Georgia’s voters ranked just 27th in the nation in terms of engagement with the political process.

WalletHub’s rankings were based on a number of metrics, including the percentages of citizens in each of the 50 states and in Washington, D.C., who voted in the 2010 midterm election and the 2012 presidential election; the change in the percentage of citizens who voted in 2012 as compared to the previous presidential election year of 2008, and the total political contributions per members of the adult population in each state and in D.C.

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