New Orleans For all of the kvetching about how long in the tooth both Biden and Trump are as they head for the November showdown in the upcoming election, we may be missing the point that they aren’t the only oldies out there – the electorate is also historically aged. In the US, more …
Category: Voting
Getting Nonvoters to Vote
New Orleans Now that the candidates for the US presidential election are no longer presumed, but set firmly in concrete, the fight will be ratcheting up to win voter support. Interestingly, in such a divided country with such well-known and established candidates, the undecided voters are likely few, making the nonvoters critical to the …
Preclearance Gone, Racial Voter Turnout Gap Up
New Orleans Britney Spears sang it loudly, “hit me one more time.” She wasn’t talking about decisions of the US Supreme Court and its historically ultra-conservative majority, but she could have been. This gut punch came from an analysis of the impact of their Shelby decision in 2013 that eliminated a central plank …