Clay mention in Detroit article about yesterday's elections

Here is an excerpt from the article:

On Election Day, today, just about everybody cares deeply about who will be the next president of the United States.
And that represents turnabout from the voting doldrums that's been an American affliction for so long it's become a chronic disorder.

In the '90s, voter turnout plunged so low that before the 2002 election, American voter participation ranked 138th in the world, wedged between those avatars of democracy, Botswana and Chad, according to the Center for Voting and Democracy.

Experts moaned and voiced prescriptions. Adults wrung their hands and worried about their college-aged offspring who preferred to vote for Clay Aiken by telephone than the low-tech drudgery of voting at a dingy schoolhouse for the president of the U.S.