{"id":25409,"date":"2017-02-06T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25409"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:02:12","slug":"analysis-who-voted-in-2016-who-didnt-democracy-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25409","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Who Voted in 2016 &#038; Who Didn\u2019t \u2013 Democracy North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nc-democracy.org\/analysis-who-voted-in-2016-who-didnt\/\">NC election turnout post-mortem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the top of the list: Three out of four Republican women (76%) participated in the election, a record for that group. Republican men also had a strong showing, with a turnout rate of 75%, followed by Democratic women, particularly African-American Democratic women (72%).<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Democratic men lagged 10 points behind Republican men, and more than one third of the voters who are not affiliated with any party didn\u2019t bother to cast a ballot. In fact, the number of registered unaffiliated voters who didn\u2019t vote (763,000) exceeded the number of Republican men who did (756,000).<\/p>\n<p><b>Nearly half the registered voters in the 18-25 age group also did not vote.<\/b> Their 53% turnout rate fell below the 60% achieved in 2008 and 55% level in 2012. On the other hand, a record 78% of registered voters over age 65 showed up; as a group, they cast over 1 million ballots for the first time, thanks to aging Baby Boomers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is why I rolled my eyes every time some Clinton-hating leftier-than-thou started yammering about how the youth were the future, the vanguard of the revolution, and therefore deserved to have 'their' candidate (Sanders) win. Want to win? Vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC election turnout post-mortem: At the top of the list: Three out of four Republican women (76%) participated in the election, a record for that group. Republican men also had a strong showing, with a turnout rate of 75%, followed by Democratic women, particularly African-American Democratic women (72%). By contrast, Democratic men lagged 10 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25410,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions\/25410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}