Author's Keywords: Keywords: turnout, battleground states, mobilization, designated market area, media exposure, television spending, current population survey	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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McKee, Seth. "Was Turnout Significantly Higher in the Battleground States in the 2000 Presidential Election?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66203_index.html>

McKee, S. C. , 2002-08-28 "Was Turnout Significantly Higher in the Battleground States in the 2000 Presidential Election?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66203_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Abstract: This paper evaluates turnout in the 2000 presidential election with the expectation that turnout was higher in the so-called battleground states. I present several models of turnout with aggregate (state-level) and individual-level data and find that after controlling for several variables known to impact voting, the dummy variable for battleground state displays a positive and statistically significant effect on turnout. I contend that the reason for greater turnout in the battleground states is at least partially a consequence of competitiveness leading to greater mobilization efforts (e.g. as shown in the form of television spending and candidate visits) on behalf of the Gore and Bush campaigns because victory was only possible by winning a portion of the electoral votes in these most competitive states.

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