Just Released from the U.S. Census: Fast Facts: The 2008 Presidential Election

Every four years, voters head to the polls to elect our nation’s president. The process begins with a series of primaries and caucuses in the winter and spring, and ends with the November general election. To mark the start of the 2008 presidential election season, the Census Bureau has culled the following facts from previously released statistical reports.

Here are just a few of the items from the document:
71% and 72%
Percentage of citizens in Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively, who voted in the 2004 presidential election. Iowa is the home of the first-in-the-nation political party caucus and New Hampshire the first-in-the-nation party primary. (These percentages are not significantly
different from one another.)

126 million
The number of people who voted in the November 2004 election ― a record high for a presidential year.

65%
Percentage of women who voted in the 2004 presidential election, compared with 62 percent of men.

80%
The turnout rate in 2004 for citizens with a bachelor’s degree or higher, greater than the rate for citizens whose highest level of educational attainment was a high school diploma (56 percent).

Source: U.S. Census

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