MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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A ‘jaw-dropping’ 15 million super-environmentalists don’t vote in the midterms
By artappraiser on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 11:11pm |The Environmental Voter Project aims to mobilize "the silent green majority."
By Joe Romm @ ThinkProgress.org, Sept. 4
[....] Super-environmentalists are defined as people who identify the environment as one of their top priorities in surveys conducted by EVP. Whether or not you voted is a matter of public record. So, in the modern digital era, using “cutting-edge data analytics and predictive modeling tools,” as EVP does, it’s fairly straightforward to find non-voters and poll or survey them.
It turns out that some 15.8 million super-environmentalists were registered to vote in the 2014 midterm elections, but didn’t. Even in the 2016 presidential election, some 10.1 million didn’t vote — and remember, that election was decided by 77,000 votes in just three states.
These are “jaw-dropping” numbers says Stinnett. But that means they are also a jaw-dropping opportunity [....]
URL:
https://thinkprogress.org/15-million-super-environmentalists-dont-vote-in-the-midterms/
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