one kept up with governmental affairs were all significant predictors of voting. Based on these findings, Kaplan and Venezky (1995) concluded that increased education and increased attention to hard news reading within school and adult education curricula could lead to increased propensities to vote.
Voting behavior, while clearly connected to education, consists of a wide variety of behaviors including not only whether one votes but also who one votes for in a given presidential election. One of the more interesting facts of the recent presidential election, noted in two newspapers, was that it was not so much the voters' levels of educational attainment that shaped there presidential choices as it was their position on the issue of education (Galloway, 2000; Wilson, 2000). While voters were fairly split on the issue, it was found that minorities tended to prefer Al Gore's position on the issue of education while non-minorities tended to prefer George Bush's view on t
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