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While College Fails to Adequately Transmit Civic Knowledge, It Influences Opinion on Polarizing Social Issues

Despite lofty predictions by some academics, pundits, and practitioners that voter turnout would reach levels not seen since the turn of the last century, the percentage of eligible citizens casting ballots in the 2008 presidential election stayed at virtually the same relatively high level as it reached in the polarized election of 2004.