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The State of the United States: A Conversation with Jack Smith
YouTube Video – Speaker: Jack Smith / Interviewer: Andrew Weissmann (NYU). “The second Trump administration has disrupted longstanding norms of US power at home and abroad. In an era of constitutional hardball where the Executive Branch is asserting ever greater levels of authority, what is the future of US democracy? How might leaders, citizens, and people outside the US shape the course of events? And what can we learn from how other countries have handled moments of democratic challenges and crisis? The State of the United States is a series of bold conversations, bringing prominent US judges, attorneys, legal experts, and media figures into discussion about democracy and constitutionalism in the Trump Era.
The events also highlight the work of the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism, which is devoted to advancing knowledge of democratic governance, the rule of law, and constitutional resilience.
2024 US Presidential Election: including All Eligible Voters
TA-MajestyPalm via Redditt: “Graphic by me, created in Excel. Source data is from Ballotpedia and Wikipedia. We’ve all seen many election graphics but I wanted to highlight the fact that the largest group of potential voters was non voters.
“Non Voters” only includes ELIGIBLE voters that didn’t vote: it does not include those under 18, non-citizens, felons etc. You can also see that being a “Swing State” has an affect on turnout: the states with the tightest margins are all towards the bottom of the graphic (WI, MI, NH, PA, GA).
- Source links: https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
- I believe 20 states had “Did Not Vote” as the “Winner”: The top 12 (Hawaii through Louisiana), California, South Carolina, Illinois, Kansas, Rhode Island, Arizona, Alaska, Nevada.
- The did note vote candidate is almost always the winner.
See also PRRI – Breaking Down the Differences Between Voters and Non-Voters in the 2024 Election. Preliminary data from the 2024 presidential election shows that Americans’ voter turnout among Americans was down slightly compared with the 2020 presidential election—yet higher than turnout for the 2016 presidential race.
According to PRRI’s 2024 Post-Election Survey, 59% of registered voters reported voting in the presidential election, while 41% of registered voters sat out this election cycle. Yet, not all groups of Americans were represented among 2024 voters in proportion to their representation in the U.S. population. This Spotlight Analysis compares the demographic profiles of non-voters and voters in the 2024 presidential election.
Note: Congressional candidates as well as state and local representatives are also included in the stats for non-voters. “Voters in the 2024 presidential election are notably more likely than non-voters to identify as Republican (39% of voters vs. 20% of non-voters) or Democrat (34% vs. 22%) than as independent (24% vs. 31%).
Non-voters are nine times as likely as voters to refuse to identify as Republican, Democratic, or independent (27% vs. 3%). While partisans were overrepresented as voters in the 2024 election, Republicans turned out at slightly higher numbers than Democrats relative to their representation in the U.S. population (8 points vs. 5 points).”
