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Voting behavior refers to how people decide how to vote. [1] This decision is shaped by a complex interplay between an individual voter's attitudes as well as social factors. [ 1 ] Voter attitudes include characteristics such as ideological predisposition , party identity , degree of satisfaction with the existing government, public policy ...
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870 gave African American men the right to vote. The first record of a black man voting after the amendment's adoption was when Thomas Mundy Peterson cast his vote on March 31, 1870 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in a referendum election, adopting a revised city charter. [19]
Transportation access can have a major impact on voting behavior. Nearly half of eligible voters didn't cast a ballot in 2020, and more than 780,000 directly cited "transportation problems" as ...
Harris’ vote was just three tenths of a point lower than Biden’s, while Trump increased his support by 6.3 percent. These facts too are broadly consistent with several competing theories.
A 2018 study in the American Political Science Review found that the parents to newly enfranchised voters "become 2.8 percentage points more likely to vote." [126] A 2018 study in the journal Political Behavior found that increasing the size of households increases a household member's propensity to vote. [127]
In the first five days of this year’s early voting, 367,752 people cast ballots at the county’s 51 early voting sites — roughly 28% of registered voters, according to Tarrant County’s ...
The American Voter, published in 1960, is a seminal study of voting behavior in the United States, authored by Angus Campbell, Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald E. Stokes, colleagues at the University of Michigan.
Trump’s continuing lies and those desperate attempts to overturn the 2020 election show the true character of a man obsessed with himself instead of honoring his duty to his country.