Jac Heckelman offers several constructive criticisms of the Bohanon-Cott analysis. A larger lesson to have noted is that the least relevant voters are likely to be uninformed ones.

Cecil E. Bohanon is a professor of economics at Ball State University.
T. Norman Van Cott is a professor of economics at Ball State University.
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