The negative effect of past eligibility is strongest in elections characterized by low saliency, implying that high-salient elections mobilize all voters equally and therefore narrow the gap between first and second-time eligible voters.
The law, which President Obama pushed through Congress on a party-line vote, promises to be a salient issue in elections for the White House and Congress this year.
Noting the high-profile nature of the court's docket, he continued: "I wonder whether the magnitude of this term, the prominence of these cases, will have the effect of making the court more salient as an election issue".
"Whatever the results, the most salient feature of this election was the months of repression preceding it".
Improving American health care is a salient bread-and-butter election issue this year.
Little wonder Russian agents spied potential to sew social division across the U.S. population as the country was headed into the salient point of an election cycle by purchasing, targeting and distributing politically charged ads via the platform — as Facebook this week revealed had been the case.
As to which of these arguments will prove to be the most salient, perhaps the November 2 election in California will provide guidance.
It has certainly inspired political discussion and reflection, and it may contribute to making gun control a more salient issue in the fall elections.
(The really salient demographic statistic from the election is one that most Democrats probably don't even want to think about: If white men could not vote, Kerry would have defeated Bush by seven million votes).
The front page of a pro-opposition newspaper, the Daily Guide, gave twice as much prominence to this brewing Ghanaian scandal as to the news of Nelson Mandela's death.Mr Mahama, who published a thoughtful autobiography before his election, lists the salient issues facing his country with candour, conviction and charm.
And it warns that Labour may lose votes the more "salient" immigration becomes as an election issue, because "as a political party, we are more effective at changing what is discussed and debated as opposed to changing what may be long-held and entrenched opinions of each party or views on which party has the best policies on each issue".
