The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the contentious and polarizing political events in American history. In an attempt to understand what happened during these historic elections, this text recreates the classic from 1960, "The American Voter".

Its fifteen chapters - about political attitudes, the political context, the social and economic context, and the electoral decision - parallel chapters in "The American Voter", from the title itself to the style to the analytical framework. The aim is to reproduce the theory and the tables of the original but with an entirely new and up-to-date data set. In particular, where "The American Voter" concentrated on an understanding of voters through examination of the National Presidential Election Surveys of 1952 and 1956, this book studies the National Presidential Election Surveys of 2000 and 2004. In addition, each chapter includes a Comment and Controversy section, which brings the reader up-to-date on the numerous scholarly and political questions that the material of the chapter has generated over the years.Just as "The American Voter" turned out to be a model text, "The American Voter Revisited" is sure to become a classic in the study of voter behavior and psychology.