re-energize our democracy. here s the magic number. 54.2. 54.2% of the eligible americans voted in 2016. when i ran in 04, the eligible vote was 60.4%. when barack obama was elected in 08 it was 62.3%. and then it dropped down in the re-elect to 58%. last time it was 52.4%, al gore. so the lesson it s not the people who did vote who elected donald trump it s people who didn t vote. young people need to understand the importance of the vote. historically they don t always turn out. we have to motivate people. climate change. i can t think of an issue that will motivate, here heading to four degrees scecentigrade in t century. hottest ten years in recorded history. last year the hottest year in
i want to mfemphasize this. we ve got to stop the day-to-day blo blovuating over our dislike and the daily tweets and start connecting to americans so that it s not just buzz words out there about the international order or the post-world war ii global structures, which are critical. if we don t defind to people how those make a difference to their lives, it s not going to matter. that s what s been missing. i look at the voting turn out of 2016. 54.2% of the americans decided to vote. that s an astonishing figure. i had the privilege of being an election observer in kenya, south sudan, palestinian.
typically the sorts of high information voters we re talking about look like republicans, however, in 2008 we know that obama won the early vote by a large margin and so far this election it looks as though why we don t have a re-creation of the 2008 early vote electorate, it s still looking like an electorate that s more democratic than republican in the nature. we have north carolina where about 46,000 people have voted early. of those, 54.2% were registered republicans. so backing up what you re saying here. 27.4% registered democrats. in iowa, over 200,000 people have voted. 53% democrats, 27.8% republicans. in north carolina what s going on is we haven t entered the in person early voting period where more than 80% of the votes will be early votes will be cast in the state of north carolina. so at this point it s more absentee voters. it s people voting by mail, who
the government of south sue dan gained control of a remote village that was attacked over the weekend. some 4,000 army and police reinforcements have reportedly been sent to aville raj. they re fighting over grazing land. the u.s. republican party presidential race is about to get ready over iowa. candidates have been campaigning for weeks and tuesday night voters will take part in what is being called caucuses. they are a few hundred in formal get-togethers where people take the candidate they want to face president barack obama in november s general election. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. much more coming up on the iowa caucuses just ahead. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens and welcome to the first edition of world business today of 2012. this is tuesday, january 3rd. it is a new year. but one report already suggests busine
the data out of europe. they re focusing on the positive and the positive is indeed china. china. and the key here has been an expansion in manufacturing output no december from the contractually in november. it s only marginally up but still expanding. that s what investors want to see. they want to see if growing and of course, manufacturing is a key part of that economy. wasn t just china, though. the hang seng getting a pop. india, it s up by 2 hoyne 4% as well. that s off the december pmi. it came out at the fastest rate in six months according to a survey. it came in at 54.2. anything above 50 means it s contracting. it was at 51 in november. india also growing. australia also growing as well. december manufacturing there increasing at 2.4 points to just over 50 as well. the s&p as you see, up by 1.1%.