LINK: Chris Lawrenece has a much more thorough explanation of voting habits, and the particular question of what exactly people are doing when they vote. I found this bit interesting:
"I can say this because my training is about 3/4 Michigan school, by way of Ohio State, with a healthy dollop of Rochester-style behaviorism thrown in just for entertainment value."
I'm faintly amused by the incestuous political science link between the Unversity of Rochester and U of M. Two of my favorite pofessors spent a period of the careers working with William Riker at Rochester (indeed, when I was arguing with Prof. Achen about the merits of gerrymandering, we used Rochester as our example).
the link is also why I ended up going to Duke and not Chicago (er, part of the reason: grad students, professors, and generally pleasant weather also played important roles), but that's a slightly longer story.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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