Thursday, November 6, 2014

Election Demographics

Joel Kotkin has a relatively fine-grained analysis of the demographic aspects of the Republican midterm victory, written for Forbes and reprinted in New Geography. Not filled with surprises but good stuff nevertheless.

For example, Kotkin reports Greg Abbott won 44% of the Hispanic vote in TX against Democrat Wendy Davis. This suggests some things about a potential Hillary Clinton candidacy. It may be that Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to vote for women, culturally that might compute.