Voter Turnout In America

Voter turnout isn’t great; many Americans just simply don’t vote. I choose the topic on American voter turnout during the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections because former president Obama and current president Trump ran a completely different campaign. I wanted to research how this may have affected the peoples votes or the lake of. During my research I looked at the background of American voter turnout, both of the elections as a whole like who voted and what made them vote that way, the battleground states, and how many Americans don’t know about their voter ID laws in their state that they live. In my personal opinion, I feel that many Americans don’t vote because they feel that their vote doesn’t matter. I vote because of President
After doing some research it shows that a huge percentage of people are not voting because political parties fail to interest and connect with the voters and this leads to the voting population being less interest in the campaign, while when others think about registering and then when they end up deciding if they want to vote or not, by the time they realize the election is already here (McDonald, 2013). This happened to a lot of my friends, they weren’t sure about voting in 2016 presidential election then they looked into it and decided by this time it was too late. This bad trend of voter turnout can be traced way back to the reforms of the Progressive era (McDonald, 2013). Turnout in post-Progressive era America continues to stay low, not at any time reaching the levels before the Progressive era reforms (McDonald, 2013). This would be accustomed since it is very little in the political history of there years that would indicate a return to a collectively oriented system of voter participation (McDonald, 2013). Since 1912, only about 50 to 65% of Americans have voted in presidential elections and as few as 10 to 20 percent in primaries and minor local elections, although the exact number depends on how turnout is measured (McDonald, 2013). Voter turnout started declining at the end of the
44% Romney) and 2008 (56% Obama vs. 43% McCain). By 53% to 41%, more men were for Trump than Clinton the 12-point margin is identical to the margin by which women were for Clinton (Tyson, 2016). The advantage for Trump among men is bigger than the 7-point advantage Romney had in 2012 and much different than in 2008, when men preferred Obama over McCain by just a single point (Tyson, 2016). Trump’s performance among men is similar to that of George W. Bush in the 2004 and 2000 elections, where he won men by 11 points in each (Tyson, 2016). In the 2016 election, a wide gap in presidential preferences emerged between those with and without a college degree. College graduates wanted Clinton for president by 52%-43%), while those without a college degree wanted Trump 52%-44% (Tyson, 2016). This was something everyone was talking about because for the first time the people whom ever vote come out and voted. This is the biggest gap in support among college graduates and non-college graduates. (Tyson, 2016). In the 2012 presidential election, there was hardly any difference between the two groups: College graduates wanted Obama over Romney by 50%-48%, and those without a college degree also supported Obama 51%-47% (Krogstad, 2016). Older voters ages 65 and older wanted Trump over Clinton 53%-45% (Krogstad, 2016). This is the same advantage for the Republican candidate as in the 2012 presidential election when older voters wanted Romney