Three months into 2013 and a total of 30 states are pushing 55 new laws to restrict voter access. These ideas range from reducing the days that polls are open for early voting to requiring specific types of identification, purging voter rolls, and eliminating Election Day registrations and some Sunday voting.

Photo Credit: CIRCLE The graph above tracks two measures of youth enthusiasm compared with youth voter turnout over five presidential elections. By:...

By: Robyn Gee The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University, is the only institution to estim...

BOSTON -– Republican Party leaders on Wednesday began picking up the pieces of their movement, trying to figure how to put them back together. ...

As important as this election is, an estimated 90 million eligible voters will not vote at all. Why is that?

In the closing days of a high-stakes election that will be determined by turnout, great stars such as Morgan Freeman and Bruce Springsteen stand tall fighting for the future of America.

Barack Obama would bend the curve of history by bringing the first woman to the vice presidency, thrilling countless women across the nation and around the world while reassuring voters, male and female, young and old, from Florida to Ohio.

If anyone embodied the Obama mantra of "hope and change" -- indeed, shouted it from the rooftops -- it was Millennials. But, of course, that was before Obama began backing off his commitments on one issue after another

The enthusiasm gap is real -- but what can Democrats do about it? The President's latest infrastructure and tax-cutting proposals seem...

Before moving on to the more important issues raised by both Nate Silver's new pollster accuracy ratings and their apparent role in parting of ways be...

While AAPOR's panels are predominantly comprised of academics and professional non-partisan researchers, it was nice to run into a handful of politica...

As Nate Silver notes, a recent USA Today/Gallup poll finds that that 62% of registered voters say they are "more enthusiastic than usual about voting" in the upcoming midterm elections.

Other assessments of the Massachusetts polls and voter turnout from around the web: Suffolk University shows momentum for Brown in a poll of bellwethe...

While we hate to interrupt the feeding frenzy over Harry Reid and Game Change, we thought the time was right for a quick, unvarnished snapshot of the ...

We have two new polls out in Massachusetts on the January 19 special election to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, and their results could not be more d...

Politico's Andy Barr and Josh Kraushaar penned a nice summary yesterday on the widespread skepticism about the pre-election polls in Virginia. It quot...

How did voter turnout in 2008 compare to prior years, particularly among key subgroups such as African Americans and younger voters? Some of the best ...

My colleague Marc Ambinder reports two additional details on turnout: First, Michael McDonald revised his national turnout estimate today, which now s...

Since community organizers were front-and-center in this election -- sometimes celebrated, sometimes mocked -- why not hear from community organizers as Election Day unfolds?

Was turnout really less than the expert's expected? Perhaps, but not as much as implied by Bloomberg's Heidi Przybyla under the headline, "Obama Won W...

Anthony Downs taught us that the candidate closest to the median voter, with respect to their positions, always wins (An Economic Theory of Democracy,...

Will Obama's white voter support in the polls be higher than his actual support on Election Day? Will this be a regional factor, or a nationwide factor? And how big a factor is it?

How is the Obama campaign using surveys and other data to guide their strategy? What do they think about national polling generally, and the Gallup Da...

Las Vegas, Nevada - Predicting a "record turn-out" for Saturday's presidential caucuses, Barack Obama closed out his Silver State campaign last night ...