… The math isn’t complicated. Winning 27 percent of the Hispanic vote and six percent of the African American vote — as Romney did in 2012 — makes it hard to win a majority of the overall vote when those groups represent 10 percent and 13 percent of the electorate, […] Read more »
Democratic Senate Prospects and the New Black Voter
Democrats plan to turn out thousands of African-American voters this fall, in an effort to hold the Senate majority. The challenge is that some of them aren’t yet registered to vote. Which begs the question, after opportunities to elect and re-elect the first black president, why would an African-American choose […] Read more »
Public Opinion on Civil Rights 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Four of the five living U.S. presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter — are in Austin, Texas, this week commemorating the 50 year anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act. They are in Austin because of the major role of President Lyndon […] Read more »
As Civil Rights Act turns 50, most Americans appreciate its importance
As the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act nears, almost eight in 10 Americans, including most whites and blacks, say passage of the 1964 act was a very important event in U.S. history, 17 percent call it somewhat important, while just 4 percent think it was […] Read more »
Race Impacts Decision Not to Pay College Athletes, Say More than Three in Ten
Despite the money top college men’s basketball and football programs generate, college athletes are not paid, and 31% of Americans believe there is some truth to the argument that this is because many student athletes are African American. CONT. HBO Real Sports/Marist Read more »
How Much Worse Can It Get?
When pundits talk about the Republican party’s troubles with the “nonwhite” vote, they usually mean the Latino vote. … Yet the nonwhite electorate contains another important problem for Republicans, one that has received less comment: the black vote. Analysts may have ignored it because the GOP loses most African Americans […] Read more »