Knowing the American public to be attracted to showmanship and having noticed Trump the showman, I believed he was a winning outsider type of candidate. In spite of falling out of favour with previous Republican candidates, and the have-runs in the United States (US) presidential elections, I thought the man had a chance. Presidential elections in the US are reputed to have a low turn-out. When that happens, anything can happen. Elections of a democratic Government defined as ‘Government of the people by the Government for the people’ is very often unpredictable for a number of reasons. One ground is voter apathy.
Voters are generally apathetic, reluctant to go to the polls for a variety of reasons. Voter apathy may arise where the electorate is of the opinion that the contestants, whether parties or individuals, have platforms with very little to choose from; voters may also feel what the contesting parties as individuals or political parties often promise, quickly evaporates when candidates win positions they had fervently put forward when they were soliciting votes. So, the masses stay away from the polls.
