Part A: Pg. 261
1. It's 2004 Presidential Election Turnout by Social Group. The chart show the race, age, education, gender, ethnicity, and income.
2. People voted more with higher education, how older they are, and higher income. I could see the pattern going up toward older and wealthy people, while younger and less income criteria tend to vote less. I could conclude that older people have more interest in community then youngers because they have more money, properties, and have bigger family.
3. Charts by state by state could be useful.
Pg. 268
1. It's a poll of what Democrats and Repulicans delegating to each topic.
2. I could clearly see that Repulicans are towards conservative and Democrats towards liberal. Repulicans want sorely standing alone while Democrats want to solve problems with other nations. I conclude that Repulicans wants to control while Democrats wants to be control by.
3.Chart showing information about their age, sex, education, etc.
Pg.274
1. It's who voted for who on Presidential race in 2004 by social group with age, income, education, etc.
2. Democrats usually voted for Democrat, also Repulicans vice versa. Minorities, lower-income voted more to Kerry. Jewish voted for Democrat. Once again people tend to follow what group they're in.
Part. B
Voting rights have been changed many times. Looking at the charts for the consideration. People with education voted more, also age contribute to this factors. More interest and power they had tend to voted. Democrats for the poors, Repulicans for the riches. People with no interest or ideas should not vote because every vote counts. They should not vote base on what they like, they should understand what they want and follow that pattern to vote.
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According to your posting and the book everything is base on statisticals using age, gender, levels of education, and social status. I do believe that those statisticals can be change by educating people about politicians. They have never question why minorities does not vote. My analysis is that the working class has no time to get information because their time is consume by work. During their campains candidates try to look good and make the oponen looking bad. Some of minorities prefer not to vote if they are not ready to vote smart. In order to vote smart you may know the basic of the candidates theme. For example, I lik Hilary Clinton but I not agreed with some of her thoughs for future laws such as the ligalization of gay marriages. So in order for me to make my mind and vote smart I need more information because it won't smart making my mine on a comment about the gay marriage legalization. The trut and the matter is that we need more education regarding political issues. How can we get that? Reading, Listen to debates, and study the candidates personal characteristic, past performance, and why not social status.
One thing that struck me was the Religion part. I wonder if there is a correlation between the number of people who said they are conservative with those who say they attend church "several times a week." In both those cases, the higher number of them vote for Bush.
A lot of churces in America are very vocal in promoting politics be calling it "values." I'm sure this is happening on both the political left and right, but it seems likely that the majority of churces are appealing to a Republican base in the red states. For those who go to church more often, perhaps they are getting an extra level of indoctination on the Republican party candidates and issues. You said that people tend to follow what group they're in. I think that in the case of Church congregations, this has probably been a good example of that. There is supposed to be a separation of Church and State, but sometimes it seems like that's only the theory, but not the practice.
It is obvious that the first chart is based on the set criteria that you all discuss (age, race, education and income). I agree with Yohan that higher income. older, and more educated people tend to vote more. Perhaps the age is because of the experience of government, opposed to those (being of younger age) who do not vote. For the second graph (which is my opinion more interesting) it appears that the majority of the voters voting for Bush were white religious, well-to-do men. I think that Bush purposely played on this interest group because it is a strong one. Obviously voting patterns are going to change over a time (new laws) . Yohan did not address whether or not people who "recently" got the right to vote tend to be more active. My opinion is absolutely, just look at the number of African Americans who have voted.
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