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...forum, entitled, "Restoring Real Democracy: Elections, Voter Turnout, and the Decline in Civic Engagement Organizations," focused on why citizens, especially lower-class voters, were staying away from the polls. Over 100 people attended the forum, which took place at the Wiener Auditorium...
Forum Chair Richard B. Freeman, Ascherman chair in economics and the faculty co-chair of the Harvard Trade Union Program, said U.S. voter turnout is lower than any other democracy. Freeman said voter turnout decreased among eligible voters of all levels of education in the years between...
...constituency at which [Nader's appeal] is aimed--largely college students--is narrow and, as a notoriously low turnout constituency, not the most promising base for party building," he wrote...
...smaller size of the council will make it more accountable regardless of voter turnout, Driskell said...
President Bill Clinton helped mobilize young voters in the 1992 election with his youthful image and his saxophone playing-prowess on the "The Arsenio Hall Show." Over 40 percent of eligible 18 to 24-year-olds voted that year, breaking a trend of lower turnout that built up in the mid-1980s...