To begin this project on voting, I decided to look at publicly available data from the November 2018 Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly household survey taken by the Census Bureau in the Commerce Department with collaboration from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Labor Department. People from around the United States are interviewed about basic aspects of their household and family units, with supplementary questions in some surveys to focus on specific topics. In November of federal election years – all the even-numbered years – the supplement is on elections. The November 2018 CPS involved…
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Today marks a departure for NYA from our usual research in sport. I’ve decided to devote some time to the study of voting, because I think it’s a supremely important and under-researched area. Voting is the foundation of democracy. Both voting and democracy as a whole have been under threat in the United States. No one knows how close the nation came to the collapse of its political system in January 2021, but it was too close for the comfort of people who, like me, feel that democracy is inseparable from freedom. In my view, the nation was saved by…
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