Electing And Non-Electing Behaviors In 2004 US Presidential Voting

October 18, 2009

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The USA presidential voting is attended every 4 years in November. It uses a system of “first-past-the-post” or “winner-takes-all” which has the meaning the applicant who gets the majority of popular votes does not necessarily win ; what is more valuable is getting the most part of electoral votes. In such a system an individual might feel that his vote cannot make a difference in the result of the voting and therefore may decide not to vote at all. That is why some scholars believe about 50 per cent of people who are eligible to vote prefer to remain at home and not to show up in the Voting Day.

In this article , the theories of electing and non-voting rules in 2004 presidential election are discussed. In other words, we are going to see whether party generalization model or issue voting played an valuable role in individuals’ opinions who voted and if they did not vote, what was the considering behind that?

The United States presidential election of 2004 was between the Republican candidate , George Walker Bush, the President of the United States and the beaten Democratic applicant , John Kerry, the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts.

Bush received about 51 percent of the votes cast (62 million votes), while Kerry got about 48 percent (59 million votes). Bush could get 286 electoral votes and Kerry 251. The make the calculations of the votes.

There was only a slight difference between the towns which elected for Democrats and the ones which elected for Republicans in comparison to the 2000 presidential voting . The diversity is to do with only three towns.

This conclusion is to do with party empathy model. That is to say the Southern states generally elected for George W Bush, while the Northern states supported the Democratic applicant , John Kerry. But this is just a mere generalization if one says that in the 2004 presidential election , party generalization model was the most important point . Nevertheless, its essence is not questionable.

The most essential point in electing theories of the 2004 was about issue electing . In other words, voters paid a lot of attention to the issues that were supported by candidates . Above all people’s concern was the issue of national safety containing terrorism and moral values which was supported by Bush. On the other hand, Kerry’s slogan was “stronger at home, respected in the world.” And he also paid more attention to economic issues like jobs and health care . One should bear in head that the 2004 election was the first presidential voting after Sep. 11, 2001 and very logically if one felt threatened , the best applicants to elect for would be a Republican.

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