Reasons For High Abstention Levels Within The Us

Question 1

State 3 reasons for voter apathy within the US?

Answer 1

. Democratic overload
. Election type
. Negative campaigning

Question 2

What is Democratic Overload and how does it influence voter abstention?

Answer 2

. It is the concept by which US voters are bombarded by too much Democracy.

. The Federal System of the US means that their are frequent local and national elections for state legislators, presidential elections, mid terms as well as others.
. All this leads to voters becoming apathetic towards and kind of democratic process e.g. only 36.4% of eligible voters voted in the 2014 mid term elections, down from 40.9% in 2016.

Question 3

What is negative campaigning and how does it influence voter apathy?

Answer 3

. Negative campaigning is essentially where a political campaign will focus on the negatives of an opposing candidate in order to disenfranchise their potential voters.

. The idea means that voters may not want to vote for a candidate in order to not be associated with that candidates negative areas.
. In the primaries for the 2016 election congressmen “Devin Nunez” referred to another congressmen “ Jordan Amash” as Al Qaeda’s best friend for criticising the NSA’s surveillance methods, it has been suggested that this controversy severely hindered his attempts to become the Republican candidate for president.