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American Politics Research, Vol. 9, No. 2, 197-219 (1981)
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X8100900204

Candidate Evaluations and Turnout

Herbert F. Weisberg

Ohio State University

Bernard Grofman

University of California, Irvine

In this article, we consider the relationship between voter turnout and voter evaluations of the candidates. Using thermometer data and the 1976 voter validation study, we investigate the magnitude of indifference, alienation, and satisfaction effects. Overall, we find candidate-based abstention in 1976 to be minimal, suggesting that nonvoting in American presidential elections must be understood in terms of factors unrelated to parties' choices of nominees.


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