About two in three eligible blacks (66.2 percent) voted in the 2012 presidential election, higher than the 64.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites who did so, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today. This marks the first time that blacks have voted at a higher rate than whites since the Census Bureau started publishing statistics on voting by the eligible citizen population in 1996. …
The report also shows that the “gender gap” in voting persists. In every presidential election since 1996, women have voted at higher rates than men. … There were large declines in youth voting among all race groups and Hispanics in 2012. [cont.]
Census Bureau