Youth Vote Undergoes Big Racial, Ethnic Changes
Just 58% of voters 18-29 identified as white non-Hispanics in 2012, compared to 74% in 2000.
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Just 58% of voters 18-29 identified as white non-Hispanics in 2012, compared to 74% in 2000.
President Obama holds only a four-point edge (48% to 44%) across 12 of this year’s key battleground states.
Most middle class Americans say it is more difficult today than 10 years ago for those in the middle class to maintain their standard of living.
When it comes to American views on government and social values, the average partisan gap has nearly doubled over the last 25 years — from 10 percentage points in 1987 to 18 percentage points.
Between 2008 and 2010, about one-in-five (22%) of all newlyweds in Western states married someone of a different race or ethnicity.
More than three-in-ten (31%) military women are black. This is almost twice the share of active-duty men who are black.
More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) view the increase in intermarriage as a societal change for the better, while about one-in-ten (11%) hold the opposite view. The rest of the public says it doesn’t make a difference.
About three-in-ten (31%) Americans say that their impression of the Republican presidential field is getting worse as they learn more about the candidates.
Roughly two-thirds (67%) of social media users say that staying in touch with current friends and family members is a major reason they use these social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn.
Voters in general remain unimpressed by the GOP presidential field; opinion is mixed even among Republicans.
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