Comments on: Scary Thoughts on Halloween http://nancysims.com/cityofhouston/scary-thoughts-on-halloween/ by Nancy Sims. Parent, Public Relations, Professor, Pundit, Ponderer. Thoughts about my world. Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Elections from a bygone era – Off the Kuff http://nancysims.com/cityofhouston/scary-thoughts-on-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-3952 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:10:56 +0000 http://nancysims.com/?p=450#comment-3952 […] such I don’t know how much there is to learn from turnout levels in the 1990s. But given the concerns about poor turnout that some folks have expressed, I thought I’d take a look and see what’s […]

]]> By: Trilla Pando http://nancysims.com/cityofhouston/scary-thoughts-on-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-3783 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:18:21 +0000 http://nancysims.com/?p=450#comment-3783 In the area of “public choice” (once upon a time I taught it) there is the “rational voter theory.” It confirms that because of the high cost of information, voters frequently “don’t bother” to vote if they are happy. If they are miserable, then they’ll invest the time to figure out whom to vote for. It’s part of the economics of information.

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