--- title: "Data Feed: Tight Senate races in the South, fewer Baby Boomers, democracy in Africa" description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers." date: "2014-04-23" authors: - name: "George Gao" job_title: "Former " link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/23/data-feed-tight-senate-races-in-the-south-fewer-baby-boomers-democracy-in-africa/" --- # Data Feed: Tight Senate races in the South, fewer Baby Boomers, democracy in Africa *A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.* **Politics **[Answers on affirmative action depend on how question is posed](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/answers-on-affirmative-action-depend-on-how-you-pose-the-question.html?ref=us), The Upshot/NYT [Polls show tight Senate races in four southern states](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/poll-shows-tight-senate-races-in-four-southern-states.html), [topline](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24upshot-south-poll.html), New York Times/KFF [Black voters could decide who controls the Senate in 2015](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/23/black-voters-could-decide-who-controls-the-senate-in-2015-heres-how/), Washington Post [Party loyalty begins at age 18](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/partisan-loyalty-begins-at-age-18/), FiveThirtyEight [74% of Colorado voters support metal detectors, 50% support arming teachers](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/colorado/release-detail?ReleaseID=2033), Quinnipiac [Most New Jerseyans still think state not back to normal post-Sandy](http://eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu/polls/release_04-23-14.pdf), Rutgers-Eagleton **Economy **[Interactive: One-bedroom housing affordability by county](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/22/what-youd-need-to-make-in-every-county-in-america-to-afford-a-decent-one-bedroom/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm), Washington Post [How long it takes each state's residents to earn enough to pay all taxes](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/23/map-how-long-it-takes-each-states-residents-to-earn-enough-to-pay-all-taxes/), WashPost [How did Canada's middle class get so rich? Look to housing](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/how-did-canadas-middle-class-get-so-rich/361053/), The Atlantic [Retirement remains Americans' top financial worry](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168626/retirement-remains-americans-top-financial-worry.aspx), Gallup [Despite some improvement, still more STEM jobs than students](http://www.usnews.com/news/stem-index/articles/2014/04/23/new-stem-index-finds-americas-stem-talent-pool-still-too-shallow-to-meet-demand?int=9e0d08), U.S. News **Health & Society** [Estimates of U.S. population by age and sex, from April 2010 to July 2013](http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb14-tps31.html), Census Bureau [The shrinking of the Baby Boom generation](http://demomemo.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-baby-boom-generation-is-shrinking.html), Demo Memo [Provo and Boulder residents report highest daily learning](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168632/provo-boulder-residents-report-highest-daily-learning.aspx), Gallup [55% increase in master's degrees between 2002 and 2012](http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_ctb.asp), NCES [College enrollment rates converging for whites, blacks, Hispanics](http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/amid-affirmative-action-ruling-some-data-on-race-and-college-enrollment-1328/), WSJ [American Indian/Alaska Native death rates nearly 50% higher than whites](http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0422-natamerican-deathrate.html), CDC [Nearly seven-in-ten say health plans should cover birth control](http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-birth-control-mandate-obamacare-support-20140422,0,2520891.story), Los Angeles Times [Among prisoners in 30 states, 67.8% were rearrested within 3 years of release](http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4986), BJS [Children in low-income areas often change schools and move homes](http://blog.metrotrends.org/2014/04/moving-homes-changing-schools/), Urban Institute **International** [The spread of democracy across the world, 1842-2012](http://www.vox.com/2014/4/22/5636186/democracy-gif), Vox [Seven-in-ten Africans prefer democracy, but political elites fail to deliver](http://www.afrobarometer.org/files/documents/policy_brief/ab_r5_policypaperno11.pdf), Afrobarometer [One-in-five African adults work on farms](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168593/one-five-african-adults-work-farms.aspx), Gallup [Diabetes is a growing and lethal problem, especially among Arabs](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/04/daily-chart-15), The Economist [Over half of U.S. $8.7 billion in health aid goes to HIV funding](http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1861809), KFF/JAMA *Got new data to share? Send it to us via email *[*facttank@pewresearch.org*](mailto:facttank@pewresearch.org)* or Tweet us *[*@FactTank*](http://www.twitter.com/facttank)*.*