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Voting III
4/3/2012
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Clearly Communicated Learning Objectives in Written Form
• Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:– identify and explain the role of formal and
informal institutions and their effect on policy. – to understand and interpret the United States
Constitution and apply it to present policy dilemmas.
– to assess the 2010 and 2012 elections without resorting to partisan bickering.
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Office Hours and Readings
• Chapter 4 (pp. 110-129)• Chapter 5
• Office Hours– Today 11-2– Wednesday 10-2
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DETERMINING POLITICAL OPINION
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America is Obsessed with Polling
• Why Polls– Raise issues– Gauge support– Get specific opinions
• Everyone Uses them– Candidates– Media– Elected officials
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The GOP
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What is Sampling?
• selecting a representative part of a population
• To determine parameters of the whole population.
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The Concept of Sampling• Blood Tests
• Food Tests
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The Practicality of Sampling
• Time
• Money
• Size
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How Can a Survey of 1000 People Represent 200 Million?
• Responses Cancel each other out
• No New opinions are added
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PROBLEMS OF SAMPLING
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No Sample is Perfect
• All samples have error
• Large Samples= Less Error
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All Voters< Registered Voters< Likely Voters
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Question Bias
• Leading Questions
• Double Barreled Questions
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Liars
• Socially Acceptable Questions
• Always Remember Homer Simpson's Code of the Schoolyard– Don't tattle – Always make fun of those different from you. – Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone
feels exactly the same way you do.
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Always Check
• Who sponsored the poll
• How they got the sample
• How big was the sample
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IS GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVE TO PUBLIC OPINION
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Do they Listen?
• Government responds to opinion 2/3 of the time
• Sometimes they do not listen to public opinion
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Why Not?
• General vs. Intense opinion
• Voting vs. general public
• Opinion is only one form of participation
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Opinions can change quickly
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We Give answers to anything
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We Know Why We Vote
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BUT WHO DO WE VOTE FOR?
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Very Simple
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PARTY IDENTIFICATIONThe Long Term Factor
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Party ID
• Psychological attachment to one of the parties
• Long Term Factor
• Best Predictor of Voting
• Influences other short-term factors
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Cleveland Rocks
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Party ID Rocks
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2008 Vote by Party ID
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The Durability Of Partisanship in 2008
• Democrats voted for Obama, and Republicans voted for McCain
• There are more Democrats in the electorate
• Obama wins
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ISSUE VOTINGThis is hard
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Issue Voting is Hard
• We are clueless
• Too many issues
• We don’t trust or understand policy
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Easy/Single Issue Voting
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Most Important Issues in 2008
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Retrospective Analysis
• Looking back at the economy
• Easier to do if there is an incumbent
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The Economy
• The events of 9/14- Voters disagreed with McCain on the Economy
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Economics
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Economics
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CANDIDATE APPRAISALSWe Vote for Who We Like
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Party Image
• Impacts our views of the candidate
• Very important for prospective voting
• McCain has a terrible party image in 2008
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The Republican Brand
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The Third Term
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Retrospective voting on Bush
• Bush is Unpopular
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McCain Vs. Bush
• In the best position of any Republican to run against Bush
• In reality no way to distance himself from Bush
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Candidate Image
• Try to create your own
• Use issues to your advantage
• Don’t Let the Media create one for you
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Hope and Change
• A message that worked
• It meant everything and nothing at the same time
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Change
• Randy Marsh on
– Change
– Change
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Hope as a message
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Change
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Bad Images
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THE ELECTION OF 2010
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The Results
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The Nationalized Election
• National factors trumped local factors for the third time
• This time around, these factors favored the GOP
• This Hurts Incumbents
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Party ID Rules the Day
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People do not like Congress
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Issues and 2010
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The Issues of 2010
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THE ECONOMYThe Primary Issue
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A Referendum on the Economy
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Unemployment
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Health Care Opinion Remained Divided
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A Referendum on Obama
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THE TEA PARTYThe X factor in 2010
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The Tea Party Movement
• Unique in that they do not want anything from government
• Very Motivated
• Angry at Government
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The Tea Party Tapped into Angry Voters
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The Tea party was a Popular Movement
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With Motivated Voters on Election Day
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BETTING ON OBAMAThe odds in 2012
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Campaign Finance
• $1,000,000,000
• Independent Expenditures as Well
• Any Republican must get at least 2/3 of this
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The Electoral College
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Popular on the Left
• Strong Support Among Democrats
• Very popular among key constituencies
• Policies are popular, and he is personally popular
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Overall Popularity Close To 50%
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Unemployment is Lower
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GDP Growth
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Figure 9.4 Presidential vote by income growth, 1948–2008
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For the GOP to win, they need a candidate who can expand the
Republican Map
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SOME NATIONS LOVE TO VOTEVoting in a Comparative Perspective
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Why so high elsewhere?
• Compulsory voting
• Fewer Elections
• PR systems and MMD
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Why Turnout Should Be High in the USA
• Easier To Register
• A National two-party system
• A better-educated population
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Despite this, fewer Americans Vote! We call the Paradox of
Participation
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TURNOUT: THE GOOD AND BAD
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Why Low turnout is bad
• Groups who do not vote, get used by those that do
• Voting levels the playing field
• Voting is essential for democracy to succeed
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Why Low Turnout is not that bad
• Low Turnout is actually a good thing
• People are not voting for the wrong candidate
• Stability in the System
• Voting is only one way of participation
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Ways to Increase Turnout
• Continue to Lower Costs– Mandatory voting– Same Day Registration– Mail and Internet voting– Weekend Voting– Holiday Voting