ABSTRACT
The voter is a person who lives in suburbs, in the settled areas of the large cities, or in the small cities. In the present political process the typical voter is a woman, middle-aged, white, lower middle class, either working herself or married to a skilled worker, living in the suburbs, and probably having lived there for a good length of time. In the primary elections that have just been finished, there were some thirty-two million votes cast in the Republican primaries and Democratic primaries, and this excluded some fairly large non-primary states. Everything at the convention hinges around that voting for the president. Traditionally the major task of the convention is to choose a candidate for the presidency. The congressmen do represent their constituencies of about half a million each; the senators represent their states, but only the president represents the whole nation. Members of the national committee are elected for future leadership of the party.
