average voter

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandvoter

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average
adjective
uk
/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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voter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvəʊ.tər/us
/ˈvoʊ.t̬ɚ/
a person who votes or who has a legal right to vote, especially in ...
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(Definition ofaverageandvoterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofaverage voter

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An issue of high concern to theaveragevoterand associated campaigns by environmental and consumer groups can exert ' pull' and ' push' effects on producers (industry).
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Because much of the electorate was socialized under a non-democratic regime, we should not expect theaveragevoterto have a sophisticated understanding of democratic politics.
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Months before the election, theaveragevotermay have little sense of how fundamental variables relate to her vote preference.
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In 1972, for example, this hypotheticalaveragevoteris female and between the ages of 40 and 49.
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The theory of strategic voting suggests that theaveragevoteris informed about politics and responds to political cues in an instrumentally rational fashion.
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While the aggregate-level results are persuasive, they represent only an indirect test of the strategic voting model's assumptions regarding the reasoning of theaveragevoter.
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I am throwing no reflection upon the understanding of theaveragevoter.
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Would theaveragevoterin this country understand a complicated constitutional measure?
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I feel that theaveragevoterwill think himself more remote from the affairs of local government bodies which have been administering over a wide area.
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I do not believe that theaveragevoterin the country has the least idea of the provisions of the electoral law.
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But can it seriously be claimed that theaveragevoterknows a great deal more about electricity than how to switch on the light, or plug in the electric fire?
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I wonder whether he will then be saying the same thing about the views of theaveragevoter.
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It is not just the procedures that we use which are desperately in need of modernising if we are not to appear as a ridiculous anachronism to theaveragevoter.
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It seems to me that if you have multiple candidatures in wards, what is happening just now is that theaveragevotervotes the ticket.
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Theaveragevoterwants to stay in at night and watch television, to go out for a meal or go to the cinema.
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I may favour that but my concern is whether theaveragevoterknows at all what is involved in that.
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I agree with what he said when he was challenged about whether constitutional issues such as this are above the comprehension of theaveragevoter.
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Let us not forget that theaveragevoterbelieves that local government is much less corrupt and less self-serving than national government.
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For theaveragevoter, it is difficult to associate idealism and trust with foreign donations, secrecy in party funding and the behaviour of some politicians.
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Nationally, such things may seem like clever ideas, and they may appear very smart to the advertising agencies, but they are completely meaningless to theaveragevoter.
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