Political & News Media Literacy: U.S. Presidential Election 2000: Who Holds the Power?

You are shocked (#5)

(5. What do you get?)

Challenge #5:
Based on one survey, here is some initial information on voters in this election.
"Statistics on How America Voted" http://ink.e-quill.com/view/11f339931b96fdee

Evaluate these solutions:

Student A got 9.4 million 15-24 year olds full- and part-time from http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p20-521.pdf
Student B got 9,445,000 15-24 year olds full- and part-time from: http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/school/report98/tab10.txt

Student C used http:///www.census.gov got 237,355 18-24 year olds in Florida will vote in 2000. The student used combined information from "V"àVoting and Registration Data to get 18.5% (past voting pattern of this age) of 1,283,000 (projected number of this age in Florida in 2000).

Under I. (Current Population Survey) click onà1. Voting and Registration in the Election of November 1998, Report. Table C says that of the total number of citizens (18-25) only 22,993,000 or 18.5% voted
Under II. (Projections) click on à1. Projections of the Voting-Age Population for States: November 2000, TablesàTable 1 Projections of the Population of Voting Age, for States, by Race, Hispanic Origin, Sex, and Selected Ages: November 7, 2000 (60k), the projected number of 18-24 year olds of voting age in 2000 in Florida is 651,000 for men and 632,000 for women, for a total of 1,283,000.

Student D wrote that she used "the latest census figures for college enrollment. I found that 7,874,000 male college students will be of voting age for this election. Also, I found that 6, 522, 000 female college students will be of voting age for this election."
http://www.census.gov:80/population/socdemo/school/report98/tab14.txt