POLI 1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Connecticut Compromise, Voting Rights Act Of 1965
27 Mar 2018
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What it takes to win : all campaigns face similar challenges: How to communicate with the public: there is no single best way to run for of ce, campaigns are long and costly. Voter turnout & decisions : the electorates has expanded throughout american history. Fifteenth amendment allowed blacks to vote, but local laws restricted voting until the 1960s. In most states, women could not vote until the nineteenth amendment was rati ed in 1920. Eighteen-year-olds could not vote until the twenty-sixth amendment was rati ed in 1971: voting is a right; it is not compulsory. People with strong party identi cation vote at higher rates, even if the contest is not competitive: issues are relevant when candidates take different positions. Campaigns highlight differences they think are most important to voters: candidate characteristics. Personality, career, perceived things in common: voting is strongly correlated with demographics, electoral choices, and context. People who have not moved recently vote.
