Posted on 05/10/2013 5:24:07 AM PDT by tobyhill
A new Census Bureau report shows a higher percentage of African-Americans than whites voted in a presidential election for the first time in history last year during the matchup between President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
The report, released Wednesday, found that more than 66% of eligible blacks voted in the presidential contest. Only 64.1% of whites turned out to vote.
This marks the first time since 1968 that blacks turned out at a higher rate the whites.
In addition to blacks turning out at a higher rate, the number of Asian and Hispanic voters grew from 2008 to 2012. Hispanics added 1.4 million people and Asians added over 500,000. Between 1996 and 2012, blacks, Asians and Hispanics all saw their percentage of the voting population increase.
"Over the last five presidential elections, the share of voters who were racial or ethnic minorities rose from just over one in six in 1996 to more than one in four in 2012," said Thom File, the report's author.
The highest turnout of blacks, in addition to the growing number of Hispanics and Asians, could also explain Obama's success in defeating Romney.
According to CNN exit polls, 93% of African-Americans, 71% of Hispanics and 73% of Asians supported Obama over Romney.
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Dead blacks probably out voted dead whites about 1000 to 1.
White conservatives had nobody to vote for.
Shorter term you are correct.
We need to get out and vote. Which means we need a pair of candidates to vote for.
Longer term however, we need jobs. America has been sending American jobs elsewhere.
Unemployed Americans do not vote Republican.
Bring back American jobs. Now.
“Why did roughly 100,000,000 eligible voters stay home?”
I read here at FR last year that a vast majority of Evangelicals refused to vote for a Mormon, and stayed home. They didn’t vote. Apparently that amount of Evangelicals was according to the article enough to hand Obama a second term. If that article I read here at FR was correct then I suppose that along with the fraud is what kept us in hot water.
They went out to vote for their boy.
Even their dead voted and probably a few that weren’t born yet. Many voted more than once. People forget where 0’ worked at prior to the WH. It was voter fraud pure and simple but Romney didn’t want to challenge it because he knew what he was up against and that it would be fruitless.
I hope they waller in their new taxes!
...it may be announced that way...but it will be subsidized in some shape or form in which they will remain FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE to certain individuals
Nikita Khrushchev is proving increasingly right in his 1959 analysis of the American people.
For them, it's a pretty good deal. Could Obama and wife have gotten into Ivy League schools without quotas? For blacks, quotas are like being born into the Bush family without being born into the Bush family. Even the Bush family has limited reach. Quotas are nationwide.
Nixon believed there was voter fraud in 1960; Romney in 2012 hoped there wasn’t voter fraud and buried the matter. Nixon knew that he could never overturn the fraud in TX, MO, and IL that year.
Yup, they can count on the kamikaze Conservatives sitting out elections because the conservative candidate isn't conservative enough or he is Mormon or whatever. McCain received more votes than Romney. Too many "Conservatives" sat home in a misguided, counter-productive protest.
One should vote his principles in the primaries but be realistic and pragmatic in the general elections.
66% of eligible blacks voted in the presidential contest. Only 64.1% of whites turned out to vote. According to CNN exit polls, 93% of African-Americans, 71% of Hispanics and 73% of Asians supported Obama over Romney.
Only 48% of the Latino population turned out, which was nearly two percentage points below the 2008 rate. non-whites made up 26.3% of all voters, another all-time high.
The share of the non-white population is also expected to rise from 33.9% to 37.8% in 2020 and 54.8% by 2060, according to Census Bureau projections. Mitt Romney captured only 17% of the growing non-white population.
Adults born after 1980 who are now between 18 and 33 continues to grow. “Over the last five presidential elections, the share of voters who were racial or ethnic minorities rose from just over one in six in 1996 to more than one in four in 2012,” said Thom File, the report’s author.
While Millennials are currently 25.5% of the electorate, they are expected to make up 36.5% by 2020. http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-568.pdf http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/09/blacks-outvoted-whites-in-2012-the-first-time-on-record/?hpt=hp_t3
“Only 64.1% of whites turned out to vote”
Hey, go tell your boy Romney that he was ‘our only hope’. No, no he wasn’t. He wasn’t ever going to defeat Obama.
Likely posted by those who were not Evangelicals, and who are paradoxically blamed while being the most conservative religious group , voting for Romney even (marginally) more than Mormons! But i have yet to see stats that corroborate that the "vast majority" of Evangelicals stayed home, or that they did so much more than any other group, or that they did not vote because he was Mormon. When they voted just as strongly for Romney as for McCain, and outdo Mormons, then the latter is hard to believe.
Rather than blaming most conservative religious group, why not blame the Republicans for producing and choosing such a quasi-conservative candidate, and for not getting down and educating non-whites.
And as the stats in my post #33 above shows, Romney's loss has to do with changing demographics rather than a change in evangelical voting.
Vote early, vote often.
Why blame rank-and-file Republicans? Blame Romney. He picked the wrong battles and fought them badly.
Women decide elections.
“The report, released Wednesday, found that more than 66% of eligible blacks voted in the presidential contest. Only 64.1% of whites turned out to vote.”
Now...the truth of these numbers:
There were votes cast, equal to 66% of eligible blacks, but that does not mean that 66% of eligible blacks voted. We have confessed stories of multiple votes being cast by a single person, from Cleveland to California. So, the fact is that the vote count does not actually reflect the number of black voters, but rather the number of votes cast representing black voters.
Vote Fraud has been a significant component of the last several presidential elections, IMO. And, last November was no exception.
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