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CHAPTER
Section 4 Guided Reading and Review
Voter Behavior 6
A. As You Read
As you read the section, fill in the answers to the questions below.
Presidential elections
1. What type of election years have the highest voter turnout? ______________________________
When many voters exhaust their patience and/or their knowledge as they work
2. What is “ballot fatigue”? __________________________________________________________
their way down the ballot
Resident aliens
3. What is the largest group of “cannot-voters”? ________________________________________
Many do not vote because they feel that
4. Why do some nonvoters deliberately choose to not vote? ________________________________
their vote will not make a difference to the overall outcome
______________________________________________________ of the election
when the polls begin to close earlier on the east coast and the polls favor one candidate causong
5. What is “time-zone fallout”? ______________________________________________________
west coast voters to feel their votes don't matter
6. What is the chief reason that most nonvoters do not vote? ______________________________
Lack of interest and education on the topic
______________________________________________________
7. How do each of these factors affect the likelihood of whether people do or do not vote?
the higher the income, the more likely people are to vote
a. level of income: ________________________________________________________________
the higher the occupation status, the more likely people are to vote
b. occupation: ____________________________________________________________________
the more/higher education a person has, the more likely they will vote
c. education: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
the older a person is, the more likely they are to vote; 35 years or older
d. age: __________________________________________________________________________
women are more likely to vote than men
e. gender: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
the more loyal a person is to their party, the more likely they are to vote
f. party identification: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fill in the characteristics in the chart below to compare some factors that influence whether people
are more likely to vote Democrat or Republican.

Democrat Republican
Income/Occupation 8. Lower income brackets 9. Higher income brackets

Education 10. Grade school education 11. High school and beyond

Gender/Age 12. Women 13. Men

Religion 14. Catholic and Jewish 15. Christian and Protestant

Ethnicity 16. Nonwhite 17. White

Geography 18. west and east coast 19. South and midwest

B. Reviewing Key Terms

On a separate sheet of paper, define the following terms.
20. off-year election 23. gender gap 26. split-ticket voting
21. political efficacy 24. party identification 27. independents
22. political socialization 25. straight-ticket voting

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