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Older people and voting participation — past and future
Author(s)	Robert H Binstock
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 1, February 2000
Pages	pp 18-31
Keywords	Elections ; Participation ; Age groups [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Contemporary politicians and their advisers focus on older voters as a pivotal segment of the American electorate. Some analysts predict that this preoccupation will intensify in the future, and the demands of older people will dominate US politics. One reason for this focus on older voters is that they constitute a substantial proportion of voters today, largely because of age group differences in voting turn-out rates. This article examines the voting participation of age groups in past US Presidential elections, and explores what the voting participation of the baby boom cohort could be on reaching old age. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010718205 A
Classmark	VLE: TMB: BB: 3F: 7T
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