Posts tagged with "voters"

Unemployment and Voter Turnout

The “angry voter hypothesis” is a popular narrative that many voters are driven to the polls by economic anxiety. But a new study shows that hundreds of thousands of Americans hit by the 2008 recession actually avoided participating in subsequent elections. The same phenomenon could happen this November as the United States experiences historic levels […]

Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona’s U.S. Senate Seat

By Reid Urban Arizona is finally getting its first female U.S. senator. Democrat Krysten Sinema rode a wave of Maricopa County voters, as well as voters from her opponent Martha McSally’s congressional district in Tucson, to give her the edge and the eventual win for the Arizona U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by […]