Showing posts with label Voter Turnout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voter Turnout. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2014

Turnout Trails County, '10 Totals --None of the commissioners were on ballot

November 07, 2014 CNN.com , Eliott C. McLaughlin 0 Comments
Just 4 In 10 Ferguson Voters Cast Ballots

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Nov. 6, 2014, Cnn.com 

 (CNN) -- Charles Davis didn't sense a great deal of excitement leading up to Ferguson, Missouri, elections on Tuesday.

His Ferguson Burger Bar & More is situated along the primary protest route in the city. People have streamed in and out of the eatery since it opened just before Michael Brown was shot in August.

Along with handmade burgers and milkshakes, his patrons have been able to pick up voter registration forms from the counter where they place their orders. While Davis saw voters wearing stickers and some customers mentioned the elections, it wasn't a regular point of discussion in the days before the polls opened.

"A lot of people didn't talk about it," he said. "It was a dead conversation."

Davis, who is registered to vote in Illinois but whose wife voted in Ferguson on Tuesday, concedes that general and midterm elections don't excite him. But in April 2015, when city elections are held? When three of the six City Council seats will be up for grabs? Now, that's a different story.

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Not all Philly dems are corrupt

November 03, 2014 Corruption , Mid-Term Elections 2014 0 Comments
Philly Dems Wanted $340G In 'Street Money'--Wolf Said No

Tom Fitzgerald, Nov. 3, 2014, Philly.com

It's a Philadelphia tradition: Democratic candidates for governor and even president are asked to give hundreds of thousands of dollars in "street money" to the party's ward leaders to finance get-out-the-vote operations in the city on Election Day. They usually say yes.

Tom Wolf, asked for $340,000, said no.

The Democratic gubernatorial nominee declined to reach into his campaign fund for the money, saying he wanted to win by appealing to voters on issues and offering the chance to defeat Gov. Corbett, who remains unpopular in the city.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Low polls=throw the bums out

August 27, 2014 Gallup Poll , Voter Turnout 0 Comments
Disapproval Of Congress Linked To Higher Voter Turnout

By Jeffrey M. Jones

Turnout generally higher when congressional job approval is low

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' disenchantment with Congress may lead to higher voter turnout on Election Day this year. In the last five midterm elections, voter turnout has exceeded 40% when Congress' approval rating was low, but turnout was below 40% when Americans were more approving.



Congressional job approval, currently 13%, is on pace to be the lowest it has been in a midterm election year. Moreover, a near-record-low 19% of registered voters say most members of Congress deserve re-election. This latter measure shows a similarly strong relationship to voter turnout as does job approval.

Voter turnout in midterm elections has ranged narrowly between 38.1% and 41.1% since 1994, considerably lower than the 51.7% to 61.6% range for the last five presidential elections. But there has been a clear pattern of turnout being on the higher end of the midterm year range when Americans were less approving of Congress. The correlation between turnout and congressional approval since 1994 is -.83, indicating a strong relationship.

The disapproval-turnout link is a fairly recent phenomenon. From 1974 -- the first year Gallup measured congressional job approval -- until 1990, there was only a weak relationship between turnout and approval, with turnout higher when approval was higher, the opposite of the current pattern. But that weak relationship was driven mostly by the 1974 midterm elections, when turnout was among the higher ones for midterms and Congress was relatively popular after the Watergate hearings that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation that summer.

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