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Voter turnout is highly variable based on the election in question (looking at presidential only here). At least, the under-45 vote is - older voters are more stable in voting propensity. Compare to for example this where if you scroll down a bit you can see that "double haters" of both political parties has gone from 6 to 28% in 30 years. So at least casually, there doesn't seem to be a super strong relationship.
I'd question the premise. There are some setups where feelings just don't matter all that much. If you hate to do laundry, well, you still (usually) wear the same number of clothes and end up doing a similar amount of laundry, to use a trivial example. My guess is that the "politically disillusioned" moniker is too generalized to be useful. After all, you only need to care about one specific race to vote, local politics doesn't fall into neat national lines, and many people consider voting a duty or privilege or habit and not a luxury indulgence dependent on positive vibes. I'd consider that latter attitude about voting being a luxury to be faulty, or at the very least, atypical for most Americans.
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