The demographic numbers of voter turnout are in and the outcome may surprise you. Real Clear Politics (RCP) reports that the Republican voter rolls were downright anemic on Tuesday, a fact that should concern both Democrats and Republicans.
You see, in the aftermath of Tuesdays can of Obama whoop-ass, Democrats were ecstatic over anecdotal claims that the youth and black vote swept President elect Obama towards easy victory. This assertion is entirely without merit.
The only voting demographic that reported a measured increase in voting percentage over 2004 was the Latino vote, which turned out in massive droves to support Barack Obama (see Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico results). The vaunted youth vote increased by about one percentage and the black vote stayed the same.
One state where the black vote increased with some significance was North Carolina, which, along with a better than 90% polling support for Obama, painted North Carolina blue for the first time since 1976.
It's beyond me why Democrats put so much time and energy into the youth vote with such fervor. This 18-29 group of shout-out-louds continually fail to show up at the polls in the large numbers one would expect.
The Republican drubbing at the polls is really attributed to the hum-drum and lackadaisical yawn from their most ardent supporters. Voting numbers show that a large percentage of them took their ball and went home without even bothering to go to the polls and vote.
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