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What type of election years have the highest voter turnout?
Presidential Elections
What is "ballot fatigue"?
The farther down a ballot the office is, the fewer the number of votes that will be cast for it (basically laziness).
What is the largest group of "cannot-voters"?
In the figure of more than 102 million who did not vote in the last presidential election are at least 20 million who are resident aliens.
Why do some nonvoters deliberately choose to not vote?
-many believe that no matter who wins an election, things will
continue to go well for them and the country.
-some refuse to vote because they don't trust political institutions and processes, or "the system".
-Some have political efficacy, or, they lack any feeling of influence or effectiveness in politics.
-Most (3.5 million) say that the demands of daily life are too strenuous or distracting to even think about voting or politics.
What is "time-zone fallout"?
The fact that, in presidential elections, polls in States in the Eastern and Central time zones close an hour or more before polls in the Mountain and Pacific time zones do. Based on early returns from the East and Midwest, the news media often project the outcome of the presidential contest before all voters in the West have gone to the polls. Some people fear that such reports work to discourage western voters from casting their ballots.
What is the chief reason that most nonvoters do not vote?
Nonvoters are likely to be younger than age 35, unmarried, and unskilled. More nonvoters live in the South and in rural locales. Men are less likely to vote than women. Those persons with a high sense of political efficacy are likely to vote -- no matter what their income, education, age, race, and so on may be. It is the combined presence of several factors, not one of them alone, that tends to determine whether a person will or will not vote.
How do each of these factors affect the likelihood of whether people do or do not vote?
-Level of income: voters in lower income brackets were more likely to not vote while voters in higher income brackets were more likely to vote.
-Occupation: Professional and business people, and others with higher incomes, regularly tend to vote. Manual workers, and others in lower income
groups, usually do not vote.
-Education: College grads have tended to vote in higher percentages than those with a high school education or less.
-Age: Traditionally, younger voters have been more likely to not vote, while older voters are more likely to vote
-Gender: Women generally tend to vote more than men
-Party identification: Anyone with a strong party identification is more likely to vote than someone who does not have a strong party identification.
How do each of these factors affect the likelihood of whether people vote Republican or Democrat?
-Level of income: voters in lower income brackets were more likely to be Democrats while voters in higher income brackets were more likely to be Republicans.
-Occupation: Professional and business people, and others with higher incomes, regularly tend to vote for Republican candidates. Manual workers, and others in lower income
groups, usually vote for Democrats.
-Education: College grads have tended to vote for Republicans in higher percentages than those with a high school education or less.
-Age: Traditionally, younger voters have been more likely to vote democrat, while older voters are likely to find the GOP's candidates more attractive
-Gender: Women generally tend to favor the Democrats by a margin of five to ten percent, and men often give the GOP a similar edge.
-Party identification: A person
who is a Democrat or a Republican will, for that reason, very likely vote for all or most of that party's candidates in any given election.
Off-year election
Congressional election that occurs between presidential election years
Political efficacy
One's own influence or effectiveness on politics, or citizens' faith and trust in government and their belief that they can understand and influence political affairs.
Political socialization
Process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions
Gender gap
Measurable differences between the partisan choices of men and women today
Party identification
Loyalty of people to a political party
Straight-ticket voting
Practice of voting for candidates of only one party in an election
Split-ticket voting
Voting for candidates of different parties for different offices in the same election
Independents
A term used to describe people who have no party affiliation
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