Showing posts with label voting preferences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voting preferences. Show all posts

Sunday, April 26, 2015

How will they vote in 2016?

Philip Bump writes in the Washington Post about the Democrats' white voter problem. First, he shows us this presidential preference map:

Bump writes,
While there were 2,126 counties that voted Republican all four elections and only 461 that consistently voted Democratic, significantly more people live in those fewer -- and more populous -- Democratic counties. So there is a base of 132 million people (using 2014 population estimates for counties) that have backed Democrats four elections in a row. 117.2 million have backed the GOP.
Go here to read the whole thing.