The election has been over for a few days, but the talk about it hasn’t.

While elections around the country consisted of many close races, most of America’s eligible voters didn’t leave the house on Election Day.

Most of America’s eligible voters did not vote because most of America’s eligible voters did not care.

Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for Study of the American Electorate, said Tuesday’s voter turnout was the lowest in 72 years, when Calvin Coolidge was elected president.

Seventy-two years ago was 1924, when the 50.1 percent of the voting population made its appearance at the ballot boxes.

In this election, 48.8 percent of eligible voters participated in the democratic process.

This may not sound terrible, considering the American people’s tradition apathy about government, until you consider this 48.8 percent consisted of only 95.8 million who voted out of 196.5 million eligible voters in this country.

That is downright pathetic.

People who don’t vote, who don’t care, who don’t want to care are throwing away an opportunity to bring about change.

This is what the race for Iowa’s third district in the U.S. House of Representatives between Democratic Leonard Boswell and Republican Mike Mahaffey was all about.

This is what a race in a southern state meant for a state representative who won — by 10 votes.

Making a conscious decision to throw away the right to vote may be a lack of information on the eligible voter who didn’t vote.

However, this lack of information is due to ignorance, which is due to the stupidity of the eligible American voters who didn’t take five minutes of their time to cast a ballot on Election Day.