Unfortunately voters will need to feel the pain before they change voting habits. (nystateofpolitics.com)
This could presumably be solved by voting habits, but for various reasons that hasn't been seen as effective. (politics.stackexchange.com)
To look for unexpected influences on voting habits, researchers recently compiled the individual county outcomes of presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial elections between 1964 and 2008 and compared them with local college football results during the same period. (sciencemag.org)