[lbo-talk] fivethirtyeight on Prop 8--- generational not racial

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 19 08:39:00 PST 2008


On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:00 AM, SA wrote:


> It's nice to know that younger voters supported Prop 8 less than
> older ones - though it's not surprising - but this blog post makes
> no sense. Just because there was a young-old gap doesn't mean there
> wasn't a black-white-(latino) gap. Obviously it was generational,
> but it was also racial.

Silver conflates first-time voters with the higher turnout. It could be that the higher turnout came from people who hadn't voted in years.

Doug



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