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From: St. Louis Journalism Review
Date: 20060201
Author:Jones, Terry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "Though the mills of God grind slowly ... with exactness grinds he all." So too with scholarly milling. Though the 2004 elections are 15 months in the rearview mirror, the thorough analyses are just now appearing.

Several excellent contributions by a mix of political scientists and non-academic survey researchers are in a special issue of Public Opinion Quarterly published last month. Here are some of the key findings.

Voter turnout spiked in 2004, rising from 105.4 million in 2000 to 122.3 million. What caused the increase? In ...

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