Electing And Non-Voting Rules In 2004 US Presidential Voting
The USA presidential voting is conducted every 4 years in November. It uses a system of “first-past-the-post” or “winner-takes-all” which means the candidate who gets the majority of modern votes does not necessarily take the first place ; what is more valuable is getting the most part of electoral votes. In such a system an person might feel that his vote cannot make a difference in the outcome of the voting and therefore may choose not to vote at all. That is why some scientists trust about 50 per cent of people who are eligible to vote prefer to stay at home and not to show up in the Election Day.
In this paper , the theories of voting and non-electing rules in 2004 presidential election are discussed. In other words, we are going to see whether party generalization example or issue voting played an valuable role in individuals’ opinions who elected and if they did not vote, what was the considering behind that?
The United States presidential voting of 2004 was between the Republican applicant , George Walker Bush, the President of the United States and the defeated Democratic candidate , John Kerry, the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts.
Bush got about 51 percent of the votes pitch (62 million votes), while Kerry got about 48 percent (59 million votes). Bush could get 286 electoral votes and Kerry 251. The counting of the votes.
There was only a slight difference between the towns which elected for Democrats and the ones which voted for Republicans in comparison to the 2000 presidential voting . The difference is to do with only three towns.
This conclusion is to do with party empathy model. That is to say the Southern states generally voted for George W Bush, while the Northern states were on the side of the Democratic applicant , John Kerry. But this is just a mere generalization if one says that in the 2004 presidential election , party identification model was the most important point . Nevertheless, its essence is not questionable.
The most important point in electing rules of the 2004 was about issue electing . In other words, electors paid a lot of attention to the issues that were supported by applicants . Above all people’s concern was the issue of national safety including terrorism and moral values which was advocated 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 working places and Medicare . One should keep in mind that the 2004 voting 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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