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authorHolden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev>2020-11-14 11:50:43 -0500
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+How do voters choose their candidates?
+- Psychologically:
+ - Party identification
+ - Some people vote Dem every year
+ - Some people vote Rep every year
+ - Some people say they're Independent but are on party lines
+ - Perception of the candidate
+ - Hate/love a candidate; actually turn out because to vote for
+ or sometimes against.
+ - Issue Preference (most rational choice, less common)
+ - Esp. in this election, perceptions can override voters who
+ usually vote this way when the candidate is polarizing
+ - Works best for very ideologically focused candidates.
+V.O. Key on why voters vote how they do
+ - Victory is "Voice of the people is an echo"
+ - Voters say/represent what you want to hear.
+ - "Voters are not fools." They are "rationally and
+ responsibly...moved by concern about central and relevant
+ questions."
+ - Argues that, in the US at least, *everyone* is an issue preference
+ voter.
+But, for ex., the Exit Polls in 2004 actually had Terrorism/Iraq as a
+swing issue between Bush and Kerry.
+This is an obviously irrational central issue, because those that ranked
+lower, healthcare, education, taxes, affect far more people.
+
+- Because elections are so expensive, often electability is more
+ important than fitness.
+- Does high turnout really make a healthy democracy?
+- Well, democracies are sometimes made more healthy by intangible
+ freedoms like of the press, speech, assembly.