Low Turnout Rate In Presidential Elections
The problem facing americans when it comes to voting is that a high percentage of hispanic, asians, and the younger population have a constant low turnout rate when it comes to presidential elections. In the article “Six take-aways from the Census Bureau’s voting report” by Paul Taylor and Mark Hugo Lopez they compare the turnout rate between whites, blacks, hispanic, and asian, from the years 1988 to the past elections in 2012. Until the past election whites have had the highest turnout rate, but since the impact Obama had on the last election according to the authors they believe it was the greatest factor in which for the first time ever blacks had a 2% higher turnout rate then whites. Although the problem isn't really with the black population, since 2004 they have kept there turnout rate at a 60% and higher. On the contrary,
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In the same article the authors also analyzed the decrease in voters from the ages 18-24. From a significant drop to 41.2% in 2012 compared to the 48.5% in 2008 the younger population also had a higher rater of non participant voters. A huge factor to this could have been hispanic population since they carry a mass number of youth and because they had such a high number of non-voters in the past election. In another article called “Asian American voter turnout lags behind other groups; some non-voters say they’re ‘too busy’” by Jens Manuel Krogstad the author compares the percentage of asian voters in midterm elections. His findings show that since 1988 only 3 out of every 10 asian americans vote every midterm election falling way behind the white percentage and blacks as well. They went more in depth with there research comparing them to white population in categories of education level and income. Krogstad found with a higher education level and income came a higher percentage of voters in both races white and
In the same article the authors also analyzed the decrease in voters from the ages 18-24. From a significant drop to 41.2% in 2012 compared to the 48.5% in 2008 the younger population also had a higher rater of non participant voters. A huge factor to this could have been hispanic population since they carry a mass number of youth and because they had such a high number of non-voters in the past election. In another article called “Asian American voter turnout lags behind other groups; some non-voters say they’re ‘too busy’” by Jens Manuel Krogstad the author compares the percentage of asian voters in midterm elections. His findings show that since 1988 only 3 out of every 10 asian americans vote every midterm election falling way behind the white percentage and blacks as well. They went more in depth with there research comparing them to white population in categories of education level and income. Krogstad found with a higher education level and income came a higher percentage of voters in both races white and