[lbo-talk] Fwd: Noam goes with Barry ?

[shag carpet bomb]

Haven't read this debate, but wasn't it the case that there was a study 
where, if those who normally don't vote did vote, it turned out that the 
non-voters didn't change the outcome? Which is slightly different that this 
one MP describes.

shag

At 03:41 AM 3/13/2012, Michael Pollak wrote:


>On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>Nonvoters are not all that different from voters, according to a 2010 
>>survey from Pew
>
>I've seen this kind of survey result many times before; it's very 
>consistent.  But one thing bugs me.  If this true, it seems that one of 
>the long accepted common wisdoms of psephology must be wrong:
>
>1) Non-voters have considerably lower median income than voters; and
>
>2) Voters with in the lower half of the income distribution vote more 
>Democratic.
>
>Which of them is it?
>
>Michael
>
>
>
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