Source of info about actual voter attitudes/knowledge.

February 28, 2008 10:42 AM

I have recently read Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival"; in it, he sights this article , which investigates voter apathy in the 2000 elections, and the surprising figures about how little surveyed voters knew about candidates' policies. The information for this article comes from the Vanishing Voter Project, which no longer exists. Is there any site where I can find out about these sort of subjects in the 2008 elections?
posted by Claypole to law & government (3 comments total)

I'm no help here, just amazed at the irony of the Vanishing Voter Project, well, vanishing.
posted by tdischino at 12:40 PM on February 28

(you mean "cites", not "sights", correct?)


given that the election season is only in it's primary and not the general, and given that this year seems to have record primary turn out, at least on the D side, I'm not sure you are going to find anything like this. At least not currently. Check back in 5 to 6 months, or even after the election
posted by edgeways at 2:20 PM on February 28

Yes, sorry about that, I only noticed it only after I had posted.

Are you saying that because of the record primary turnout, nobody needs to study these subjects, or just that nobody has bothered? How are we to know whether these things have improved at all?
posted by Claypole at 2:37 AM on February 29