Nonvoters : America's No-Shows

This book addresses the issue of why 51.2% of the population of the USA failed to vote in the November 1996 presidential election. Through polls and studies conducted in the spring and summer of 1996, the contributors set out to answer the following questions: what were the 51.2 percent doing that day? Who are they? Why didn't they vote?The results are summarized into five types of nonvoters: doers, unplugged, irritable, don't knows and alienated.

Introduction: Why Hear From Nonvoters?

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

The Conventional Wisdom About Nonvoters

1

(14)

Civic Embarrassment

4

(3)

Disgrace in the Eyes of Other Countries

7

(2)

A Vital Democracy?

9

(3)

Changing Symbolism of Voting

12

(3)

Profiling America's Nonvoters---Their Voices

15

(28)

Reflecting the Stereotype

17

(3)

Detachment and Cynicism Belie Good Voting Intentions

20

(2)

Avoiding Political Parties

22

(1)

The Issues: God, Motherhood, and the Economy

23

(2)

Often Involved and Informed, But Not Necessarily in Politics

25

(2)

Doers

27

(3)

Unpluggeds

30

(3)

Irritables

33

(2)

Don't Knows

35

(3)

Alienateds

38

(2)

Words Versus Deeds

40

(3)

Doers

43

(46)

Advocate Against Lazy Voting

45

(5)

Dr. Robert Wolkow

No Time Left for Voting

50

(6)

Nancy Smith

A Step Away From Voting

56

(6)

Jason Caldwell

Dedicated to the Hospitality Industry

62

(6)

Claudine D'Orazio

Put It Off and Missed His First Election

68

(5)

Ryan Gerali

A Member of the Silent Majority, Content to Follow

73

(5)

Paul Rains

The Pursuit of Ordinary Happiness

78

(5)

Gene Tencza

Gone Fishing

83

(6)

Sue Jablonsky

Unpluggeds

89

(46)

Missing in Action Since Kennedy

91

(5)

Jack Daniels

A Hard-Scrabble Life Focused on Raising Her Kids and Getting By

96

(5)

Barbara Beth

Runaway Mother Who's Seen All She's Gonna See

101

(5)

Janet Shepherd

Distracted by Darts

106

(5)

Karen Pelling

Baited, Switched, and Out

111

(4)

Tracy Rowley

She Counts on Herself and Her Neighbors, Not Washington

115

(6)

Paula Ryan

Tuned Out From Politics

121

(5)

Steve Gordon

Politics Are Outside Her World

126

(4)

Iris Llamas

``The Word'' Is Not Politics

130

(5)

Serena Slaton

Irritables

135

(22)

On Election Day, He's Voting---For No One

137

(6)

Henry Montoya

He Wants to Get Away From the Lies and Incivility

143

(6)

Michael Keegan

Hollow Faces on Parade

149

(3)

Melody Lewis

A New Yorker at Heart, She Won't Vote in New Jersey

152

(5)

Caren Freigenberg

Don't Knows

157

(22)

Cracks in Her Fairy-Tale World

159

(4)

Susan Godoy

Family Matters, Politics Don't

163

(1)

Elizabeth Baxley

Living in Fear

163

(11)

Erica Smith

Right There in Spirit if Politicians Touched Social Security

174

(5)

George Perez

Alienateds

179

(12)

Doesn't Count and Doesn't Care

180

(4)

Kathy Smith

Registration Is Only Ninth Tenths of the Vote

184

(7)

Alma Romanowski

Can't Shows

191

(14)

He Knows a Vote Counts---And Wishes He Had One

193

(4)

James Ayarkwa-Duah

She May Become a U.S. Citizen, But She Still May Never Vote

197

(3)

Estela Crespo

U.S. Marshal Turned Felon Turning Back

200

(5)

Keith Roberts

Conclusion: American Democracy Into the 21st Century

205

(16)

Appendix A

221

(12)

Appendix B

233

(2)

References

235

(3)

Other Sources

238

(3)

Index

241

(5)

About the Authors

246

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