Midterm Elections

[ericadawn16]

The news made a big deal of the overwhelming majority of voters in the 2014 elections being Caucasian. However, this website gets more technical:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/05/the-2014-electorate-wasnt-just-older-and-whiter-than-2012-it-also-voted-more-republican/

75% of voters were Caucasian which actually matches up with 77% of US citizens being Caucasian. African-Americans make up 13% of citizens and 12% of voters. The surprise is that Hispanic/Latino voters only made up 8% of voters when they could comprise as much as 17% of the population. Is there not enough social outreach or are they that disenfranchised?

However, this isn't going to stay this forever. This article feels that Caucasian majority only has a few more elections before it's over:
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/minorities-voting-census-demographics/2014/11/19/id/608254/

This article is about how the last time that the Republicans had this many seats in the Senate and House was in 1928...and it didn't work out so well for any of us:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/1928-congress-last-time-republicans-had-a-majority-this-huge-112913.html#.VKIX-BYKA

Comments

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Hispanics make up a bigger percentage then Blacks do? I didn't know that.

Let's hope their reign is as short lived as it was back then. :o
Hugs, Jon

[psyko-kittie.livejournal.com]

The surprise is that Hispanic/Latino voters only made up 8% of voters when they could comprise as much as 17% of the population. Is there not enough social outreach or are they that disenfranchised?

I'm going to go with neither, because you've failed to take into account that most population figures include the legal and the illegal, so if 17% of the US population are comprised of Hispanic/Latino then they are including the legal immigrants (green card and work permits holders) as well as the illegal immigrants, both groups that are ineligible to vote. Plus, when looking at the Hispanic/Latino population, it appears that majority of the group are actually pretty young... too young to vote, legal or not.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I can't find numbers that specify how many legal citizens, but these numbers are based on census numbers so I doubt too many illegals are going to be willing to do it.

However, anyone born in this country counts as a citizen and I did find several articles saying 800,000 Hispanics turn 18 each year and the majority of those would have been born here.

This is also why the other article pointed out how important they will become.