Posted on 11/22/2010 5:34:29 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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Compared with 2008, voting dropped off this year particularly among pro-Democratic groups:
-Young voters were down by 55 percent.
-African-Americans were down by 43 percent.
-Hispanics were down by 40 percent.
Of those voters who did show up this year, four out of five were white, one in 10 was African-American and one in 13 was Latino. The analysis is based primarily on exit poll data and preliminary estimates from the U.S. Elections Project.
Senior citizens turned out in force - their turnout was 16 percent higher than in the last midterm election of 2006, and 59 percent of them voted Republican, up 10 percentage points from 2006. While voters 65 and older are about 13 percent of the U.S. population, they made up 21 percent of this year's electorate.
Rich people voted heavily too. Total ballots cast by people making $200,000 a year or more expanded by 68 percent over 2006, the study found. Those making from $100,000 to $200,000 cast 11 percent more ballots than they did in 2006. The share of the vote declined for those making less than $50,000 annually.
"It is fair to say that 2010 was the year of older, rich people," the study said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I’m only getting older and whiter.
And who’s being targeted by this regime? Old; death panels. Rich; higher taxes. White; redistribution.
The percentages seem to reflect pretty much the dispersal in the country right now. In states that encourage and support illegals, the Hispanic vote was enormous (look at Harry Reid’s win, which had plenty of illegals voting for him). In Flyover Country, the voters got off their dead asses and went to the polls, somewhat in response to the Tea Party efforts. That’s a good sign of things to come in 2012, to partly offset the massive vote fraud in the Democrat strongholds (inner cities, Kalifornia, border states, and heavy urban areas). The elections are won and lost by the sheer numbers of fraudulent votes in inner-city non-policed voting locations, coupled with Motor Voter, and mail-in (absentee and early vote) areas. Many of these have more votes counted, than they have registered voters. Voter ID is one way to attack this, but every politician plays to the minority voter by refusing to push for it, because Activist Judges rule it to be “discriminatory”....and it IS discriminatory, as it would allow Citizens too much power.
You can only lie to the young, the dark complected and the poor for so long before they begin to understand that the Democrat party is the Plantation Party and that the price for voting for them is perpetual slavery.
If these whining libtards just keep pushing, those voters will be back, but not in any kind of way they imagine.
Isn’t this called PROFILING?
Isn’t this called PROFILING?
Ah, where do I fit in all of this? I mean with the emphasis on racial identity politics and me being Half White and Asian.
It's possible that African-Americans are somewhat disillusioned by their experience with electoral politics. They voted for "hope and change," but what they got was "unemployed." This probably contributed to a lack of desire to vote for any more of it. |
So, is this the strategy(unequal racial voting) that the DOJ will use to overturn the 2010 elections?
Ah.....capitolism don’t ya just love it! I don’t suppose thier were some rich latin conservatives as well as rich african American conservatives who were also tallied in? I thought so! The article wouldn’t fit the agenda if they were mentioned.
I’m only getting older and whiter.
My wife is only getting older and blacker. Also, my wife says she can see November 2012 from our lanai, and that she will be voting for Mrs. Palin.
5.56mm
So the ‘hosts’ out voted the ‘parasites’. Cool.
Let’s do it again in 2012.
That’s good. All those groups, you go ahead and leave it to us to keep the republic. You just stay home and learn about the constitution and when you’re ready to vote to maintain liberty you can try again. Until then...stay the hell away from the voting booth.
PS: It's "there were" and "capitalism". My pet peeve is their, their and they're.
Yawn, they left out the angry male labels? What happened to their women?
Pray for America
To me it means that the ‘old, rich, white, and Republican take politics and voting seriously.
Which means that the young, Africa-American and Hispanic don’t. Or in this election, anyway.
Of course those are generalizations as many poor vote in off-year elections as well as any of the above.
But voting is not a game. All are affected by whoever is in office.
Chinni and professor James Gimpel have been taking a deeper look at American communities, starting with a research project for the Christian Science Monitor before the 2008 election. They wanted to understand why people vote the way they do. Using income, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, education, and other data from the census and other sources, the two identified 12 kinds of communities that make up our “patchwork nation.” ..... < snip > ..... The types of communities are: “boom town, evangelical epicenter, service worker center, campus and career, immigration nation, minority central, emptying nest, industrial metropolis, monied 'burb, tractor country, military bastion, and Mormon outpost,” according to a news release for their book, "Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the 'Real' America." Once their demographic research showed them the different kinds of American subcultures, Chinni visited them and talked to people who lived in them. Those stories are in the book. “I’ve learned more about America in the last three years of doing this project than I learned in the previous 20 years,” he said. He found that people living in different communities may vote the same, yet live in very different realities. For example, Ann Arbor and Detroit, Mich., both vote Democratic. Yet the kinds of issues and personal experiences people have in the two places are worlds apart. ..... < snip > “We have to get beyond the narrative that tells us there are two Americas, red and blue,” says Patchwork Nation Project Director Dante Chinni. Seeing each other that way leads to “silly stereotypes.” City people may say rural people are stupid, and rural people may say city people “have no moral compass," said Chinni, in a phone interview.
Interestingly, Chinni doesn't think that the Tea Party is a genuine populist movement because it doesn't yet have a coherent voice and because it is not "against all centers of power", and predicts that Tea Party phenomenon will evaporate within months.
He also predicts that a "real populist movement" is likely to develop... which could be good or bad because "populist movements can be scary." In his opinion, the reason for the appearance of new populist movements is the end of postwar industrial boom but no agreement or sense what has replaced it.
Patchwork Nation research is funded the Knight Foundation and the website http://www.patchworknation.org shows the "type" of community for each ZIP code. Could be useful for political / election researchers of certain districts and gerrymandering.
When did $200,000 a year become rich?
I don’t believe this though I do think more crackers voted than usual.
Fear is good.
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It's possible that young people are somewhat disillusioned by their experience with electoral politics. They voted for "hope and change," but what they got was "unemployed."