Iranians participate more in a theocratic democracy than the US does in a secular democracy

It is quite remarkable to read, that compared to a theocratic democracy of the Islamists in Iran, the US people do not participate a lot.

Compare U.S. voting with foreign voting and it's not a pretty sight. Americans are less apt to vote than are people in other old democracies, in new ones, in dangerous places, dirt poor ones, freezing cold ones, stinking hot ones and highly dysfunctional ones.

Even that theocratic "axis of evil," Iran, has bragging rights over the United States in this regard. So does chaotic Iraq, where an estimated 70 percent of voters cast ballots in December parliamentary elections.

Maybe someone should tell Calvin Woodward of AP, that in Iran it was just a novelty, and in the US the novelty wore off a long long time ago.