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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jill Ann McCorkel <jmccorke@UDel.Edu>
To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: 1996 election class activity 
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Andrea Ferris wrote:

> The higher the class, the more likely you are to vote. Political scientists
> have pretty much determined that this factor has to do with education, since
> the more education  a person has, the more likely s/he is to vote.

Sadly, the more education I got the more cynical I became--less likely I
was to vote.  Perhaps the principle of decreasing returns? ;-)

Jill McCorkel
Univ. Delaware