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Furthermore, because the actual presidential election is so far away, voter turnout is extraordinarily low for primaries. As a result, a particularly active or vocal minority can sway party primaries very easily. Voters in the primary elections tend to be entrenched party members, and candidates routinely campaign toward the extremes and special interests of specific states during the primaries to capture party votes, then move back to the middle for the national election. As a result, there is no motivation for candidates to campaign either consistently or with the interest of the whole nation in mind as they go state...
...return primary politics to the mainstream, voter turnout must increase. One way to get out the vote would be to reduce the barriers for working voters. A law providing for a several-hour "election leave" modeled on family leave, or incentives to employers to offer such time off, could allow workers to leave their jobs and participate in primaries as well as the general election...
...VOTERS Nevada had the worst voter-turnout rate, only 38%, for the 1996 presidential election. Minnesota and Maine had the highest turnout rate...
...Voter turnout...
...This may satisfy Bush, but other people have grown concerned. After he grinned through his recent foreign-policy speech, callers to C-Span spent more time weighing in on "the alleged smirk," as Brian Lamb put it, than on his hard line on China. Last week a New Hampshire voter asked Bush, gingerly, if he were "intellectually curious." It's always better, Bush replied, to "be underestimated...