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Showing posts with label voter turnout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voter turnout. Show all posts
Sunday, October 8, 2023

Voter Turnout

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Having the right to vote is one thing, exercising it is another. - MIT Election Lab . Voter turnout is a measure of civic participation that...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

From 538: Voter Turnout Fell, Especially In States That Clinton Won

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We noticed this in class this week. - Click here for the article . Early voting surged. Election Day voting plummeted. The net result: ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: Behind Trump’s victory: Divisions by race, gender, education

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Expect lot's of analysis in the coming days. Here's a look at the divides that revealed themselves in Tuesday's election in comp...

Let's compare 2016 with previous elections.

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For use in class: David Leip's political atlas . Neither Trump not Clinton received as many votes as the winner in 2012, 2008 or 2004....
Thursday, November 3, 2016

From CityLab: In the U.S., Almost No One Votes in Local Elections - In most major cities, fewer than 15 percent of voters turn out to cast a ballot for mayor.

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And - as we know - its worse locally. But is this deliberate? And note that old folks do vote - and that matters. - Click here for the artic...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

From the NYT: For Every 10 U.S. Adults, Six Vote and Four Don’t. What Separates Them?

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For both 2305 and 2306: Perhaps the biggest problem with low voter turnout is that it is not uniform. Some groups vote at higher rates than ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

From the New York Times: Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls

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Perhaps this addresses the question posed in the previous post. - Click here for the article . . . . the purge of Sparta voters is precis...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

From CNN: Latino vote: Will the sleeping giant finally choose the next president?

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This has been predicted - incorrectly - for several elections. Will it be true this year? - Click here for the article . Will Latinos ...

Barack Obama praises Australia's mandatory voting rules

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We will discuss voting turnout in some sections soon enough - and look at the low levels of turnout in the US as compared to other nations. ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Millennials and the 2016 election

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For classroom discussion - and a written assignment for a small handful of students: In 2305's section on public opinion we will looks a...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

No surprise here. From the Texas Tribune: Texas Near Bottom Among States in Primary Turnout This Year

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It's standard fare. We beat Louisiana! - Click here for the article . Texas saw record turnout numbers in last week’s presidential pri...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Republican Presidential Race Fueled Record Primary Turnout

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26.1% turnout in Harris County 27.8% turnout in Brazoria County. - Click here for the article . Voting turnout in Texas surged on Tuesday w...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

From Vox: Primary voters don't really look like America

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A point we've been making repeatedly in class. - Click here for the article - and video ! We live in a country with a two-party system...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Why vote? Maybe there's no need.

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Some Texas Races Decided Before Voters Hit Polls . We are just one week away from Super Tuesday but before a single ballot is counted in ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

From 538: Ted Cruz’s General Election Strategy Is Wishful Thinking

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There are multiple reasons I like this story. The graph below breaking voter turnout into ideological categories might be the best. - Click ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Turnout for Texas Primaries Expected to Be Highest Since 2008

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It'll still be very low compared to the general election though. This despite the fact that the primary election in Texas is the only o...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

From The Hill: Why Americans feel politically powerless

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An early theme in class is the requirement that citizens in a republic be actively involved in its maintenance. I threw this quote at you f...
Friday, December 4, 2015

About MUD's and low voter turnout.

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Just to add fuel to the fire regarding the consequences of low voter turnout: Here's a good look at how the political process - on the l...

From the Pearland Journal: Brazoria County voter turnout historically low

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But we knew this already. - Click here for the article . Brazoria County has historically had poor voter turnout at the polls, typically...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

From the Houston Chronicle: Texas counties turn to voting centers to boost turnout

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County officials are using apps to help voters find places to vote. This is from September, so there's no feedback yet on whether these...