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Voter turnout by sex and age for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Age, income, and educational attainment are significant factors affecting voter turnout. Educational attainment is perhaps the best predictor of voter turnout, and in the 2008 election, those holding advanced degrees were three times more likely to vote than those with less ...
In 1992, Ross Perot, a third party candidate for president, won 22 percent of the 18–24 year-old vote, his strongest performance among any demographic group. [ 7 ] Since 2004, young American voters have increasingly been more supportive of Democratic candidates than Republican ones, with increasing sympathy for more and more progressive ...
Voting in the 1972 Presidential Primary Election in Birmingham, Alabama. 1970. Alaska ends the use of literacy tests. [49] Native Americans who live on reservations in Colorado are first allowed to vote in the state. [55] 1971. Adults aged 18 through 21 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
With nearly 60 million ballots already cast, everyone interested in the presidential election is trying to figure out where the race stands.
Although most Americans said in a poll they think the two leading presidential candidates are too old, some experts say having older candidates could be a good thing.
The presidential election of 1989 was the first with the lower voting age. People between the ages 18 and 70 are required to vote. The person must be 16 full years old on the eve of the election (In years without election, the person must be 16 full years old on or before 31 December).
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, announced that he would support raising the voting age from 18 to 25, unless a voter were to serve in the military or pass a civics test. The ...
During the competitive presidential race of 2000, 36 percent of youth turned out to vote and in 2004, the "banner year in the history of youth voting," 47 percent of the American youth voted. [10] In the Democratic primaries for the 2008 U.S. presidential election , the number of youth voters tripled and even quadrupled in some states compared ...