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Other speakers at the event included David Nyhan, a Boston Globe columnist who stressed voter participation, and Maxine Isaacs, a Kennedy School professor who was a press secretary to 1984 Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale...
This semester, she's taking a government class, and wrote a paper on voter turnout. There is no escaping politics at Harvard...
Ballot initiatives could also have an impact on close national races by affecting voter turnout and composition...
According to Waters, the voter turnout in states with initiatives is three to seven percent higher than those without. He says that this difference can be attributed to voters feeling that they are voting for direct results, not just promises. The Republican governor of Michigan attempted to keep a school voucher initiative off the ballot because he feared that it would cause more Democrats to vote...
...note, by the way, that Bush's victory in Florida and thus the nation was then announced, in order, by CNN, ABC and Fox, all of which I trust you'll find will still be in business tomorrow. Although, after the Voter News Service debacle of earlier in the evening, Peter Jennings of ABC was positively spooked by the thought of declaring any victor in the campaign, ever: "Unless there is a terrible calamity," he hedged. "George W. Bush will be the next president of the United States." Shortly after - at least in New York ABC weirdly switched, mid-report...