{"id":6153,"date":"2011-05-13T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2011-05-13T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:04:13","slug":"why-young-people-dont-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6153","title":{"rendered":"why young people don&#8217;t vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This graph (using Census survey data from 2010) presents an interesting contrast:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/notvoting1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1875\" title=\"notvoting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/notvoting1.jpg\" alt=\"Reasons Given for Not Voting, 2010\" width=\"483\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>College students are much more likely to cite being out of town or away from home as the reason they didn&#8217;t vote. That make sense: they tend to live away. Their peers who are not in college are somewhat more likely to cite a lack of interest or faith in the impact of their vote. They are also more likely to give miscellaneous &#8220;other&#8221; reasons.<\/p>\n<p>We are aware of the limitations of survey data about reasons for non-voting. Individuals may not know or disclose their own true reasons. And some of the answers are ambiguous. For example, if you say that you were &#8220;too busy,&#8221; does that mean that you absolutely could not get to the polls or that voting was a relatively low priority for you? (Would motivating you make any difference, or not?)<\/p>\n<p>Still, this graph suggests that the obstacles to voting are quite different for current college students and for their more numerous contemporaries who are not in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graph (using Census survey data from 2010) presents an interesting contrast: College students are much more likely to cite being out of town or away from home as the reason they didn&#8217;t vote. That make sense: they tend to live away. Their peers who are not in college are somewhat more likely to cite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}