True, but I was referring to strictly numbers. Still, I believe a higher precentage of the population voted in comparison to other recent elections, but not much higher.

Using numbers instead of percentages in relation to modern statistics can actually severely skew the results. The elections, for example--it's not like the masses turned out to vote, because I'm sure there have been plenty of elections in the past where more of the population (at that time) participated in the voting process. Or, for another example, gas prices, which at this point are "the highest in history", but when inflation is factored in, still lower than gas prices were in the 70s.