US electoral turnout surged after the 2008 financial crisis to century highs

Evidence

A short quarter-century later, some coordinates of the portrait offered by Anderson appear explicitly out of date. With the fallout from the financial crisis marking a clear turning point, protests on campuses and in the streets have seen a spectacular increase. Electoral participation rose, too. In November 2008, as Wall Street teetered on the brink, turnout reached 61.6 percent of the eligible voting-age population. In 2020 it hit 66 percent, the highest proportion of Americans to cast a vote for a presidential candidate since 1900, receding slightly in 2024 to 64 percent, the second highest in over a century. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 12

Categorization

• DEFINE: Hard numeric anchor (61.6%, 66%, 64%) for the postpolitical-to-hyperpolitical turn keyed to the 2008 crisis — exactly the periodization detail the reader needs to reproduce.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s standing interest in the financial crisis as a rupture point in US politics; plausibly cross-references crisis-period political economy literature.