Those graphs are incredibly deceiving—offering % of population and % of the vote received by each party on the same line, as if the numbers were representing the same thing.
Been waiting for someone to notice and start picking those graphs apart. Yeah, blacks are 13% of the population, and the Repubs get 13% of the black vote—therefore the Repubs “look more like America”!
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What’s the problem? The electorate is probably a reasonable sample of the population at large. Granted it would have been better to count adults only, but the point is reasonable - that voting is mostly ethnic bloc voting like it is almost everywhere else on the planet.
I fail to comprehend what you are saying. The graphs are very simple and easy to understand. They do not mix fraction of the population and fraction of the vote “on the same line.” Each graph stands alone and tells a story — the makeup of the nation’s population and the makeup of the electorate. Their stories are remarkably consonant and telling — the Democrat party needs to work much harder to “look like America.”
Point made. Well done. It seems that the D and R columns and lines ought to be 50% each for the issue to null and void.
Yeah, these supposed correlations are nonsense. It’s like saying 50% of Americans are female, and 50% of women say they like carrot cake, so carrot cake is truly representative of America. WTH?
Those graphs are incredibly deceiving—offering % of population and % of the vote received by each party on the same line, as if the numbers were representing the same thing.