"Americans have checked out of politics. It's not just a problem with one segment of the American public. People are disengaged across all kinds of socioeconomic and ethnic categories." - Tamar Datan, Pew Charitable Trust, as reported in _The_Chronicle_of_Philanthropy_, Sept. 21, in article "Renewing American Democracy: Foundations Seek to Revers a Loss of Faith in the Political Process".
