The former have announced that they will boycott the election, and the latter have said that they are not interested in elections at all.
As economic migrants, many of whom have no plans to return, it may be that most Mexicans living abroad are not very interested in elections back home anyway.
Hollande is a career politician who, from his first teenage candidacy as classroom rep and then student union leader, was interested in elections and how to win them.
And it comes at a time when Americans are once again passionately interested in elections and at a juncture where Florida is once again a critical factor in yet another tight and tenaciously fought contest for the Oval Office.
If, like me, you find it difficult to get interested in elections for community college trustees, read this series and you might feel differently.
Blum says he got interested in elections when he ran a losing campaign for a House seat in Houston in a district that he says was drawn to elect a black Democrat.
The NHK poll reported only 23percentt of their respondents said they were "very interested" in the election, 19percentt less than the election that returned Mr. Abe to power in December 2012.
"The people are not that interested in the elections," said Abdul Hadi, the election commissioner in the adjoining province of Helmand, where thousands of Marines have been deployed to regain towns from the Taliban in time for the elections.
