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Some fun Census/Election math for your reading pleasure | |
( TL;DR, get out there and vote, people! ): | |
As of 2014, eligible voters (18+ and a citizen) who live in | |
household that make $0 - $75K a year represent 74M people, | |
or 58% of eligible voters. | |
Eligible voters who live in households that make $75K+ a year | |
represent 53M people, or 41% of eligible voters. | |
Both groups had nearly identical voter turn out at 29M people | |
for the 2014 election. | |
However 29M is 40% of the $0 - $75K, and 55% of the $75K+. If | |
an additional 15% of eligible voters voted from the $0 - $75K | |
group ( to make it even with the $75+ turn out percentage ), | |
that would be an additional 11M voters. | |
To put it that perspective, Barack Obama won against Mitt Romney | |
by less than 5M votes. | |
In 2014, only 23.1% of "Millennials" ( voters between 18 - 34 | |
years old ) voted. Millennials are 64M eligible voters strong, | |
however only 14.7M of them voted. | |
To put that in comparison, 65+ year old eligible voters are 44M | |
strong, and 59.4%, or 28M of them voted. | |
Twice as many folks 65+ voted than those between 18 - 34 in 2014. | |
Terrifying Graph: http://i.imgur.com/VF16Qx7.png | |
References: | |
http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p20-577.pdf | |
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/2012pres.pdf | |
Notes: these numbers aren't quite right ( off by up to 10% I'd | |
say ) since not all individuals reported an income to the Census. |
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