Midterm Elections
Dec. 29th, 2014 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16The 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
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
