Page 21 - Voting Patterns News Today

National identity that is based on it. but around the world these days, were seeing the rise of another kind of national identity, one that can be darneller and more troubling. in the recent elections for the xwrurpian parliament, nationalist, pop you list and even xenophobic parties did surprisingly well. the uk independence party beat ute all the established parties. frances national front won handily guess the ruling socialist party. the golden dawn in greece won half a million votes, awardin...

Watched his chief justice get blocked by a filibuster. johnson didnt have enough time in his presidency to nominate a chief who could get confirmed. so the next chief justice, the vacancy that opened up for a democratic president johnson was then filled by richard nixon. thus beginning 45 years of conservative chief justices. with good health, the current conservative chief should be there another 25 years. republican justices have been much more successful in handing off their seats to republic...

Nominees than democrats have been. it was pointed out in "the new york times" saying the six most conservative justices based on their voting patterns to have retired in the last 50 years, all left the bench under a republican president. by contrast, only one of the six most liberal justices has departed when a democrat was president. he wrote that in the recent times article, which considered the arguments pro and con on whether ruth bader ginsburg should resign in time for president obama to r...

Talks about the polarization of birth control. empirically, how much do they get from 1980 from the reagan moment forward to 2012, basically its about half, right? in fact, less of the vote went to the democrats. now president obama elected with 53% of the catholic vote, 51% in 2012. its probably less irish catholic and more latino catholic. are we overstating this great polarization around aca? >> ill speak to that. i would say, first of all, youre right. there is no catholic vote. catholics ha...

Senate races. recent study shows a dramatic change in voting patterns. age didnt used to effect who you vote for. as you can see here, the young and old voted the same way. in 2004, 18 and 19 yields voted more democrat. this partisan voting gap is the biggest in the modern era. millenials are more likely to call themselves liberal. theres a catch with that. young voters are in sync and dont see themselves as democratic at all. they are less likely to identify with a political party. if they dont...

Average of a latino woman is 28. why hasnt that helped them do better? >> potential is the key word. the way that texas politics is skewed and the way it was when the democrats ran the state, the primary was the default general election. today as texans go to the pole to choose their candidates for these major positions, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and down the line, youre going to see fewer than ten percent of texans show up. we expect that voting patterns are going to be si...

Pop up, but, in fact, what hes doing is enforcing some of the laws that, as sherrilyn said, are on the books and need to be enforced. >> i want to read from richard epstein, another conservative legal thinker. he said, look, the approach to voting rights enforcement was over the top and the need to keep it in place based on 1964 voting patterns is a serious error, but instead of backing off, he pushed individual cases that seemed meritless. your response on both of those. >> astonished. however,...

Congressman frank wolf announced he was not going to run again but democrats cant recruit a top-flight candidate for a district that ought to be an easy pick-up. this is verifying what democratic would-be candidates are learning around the country. >> theres enough money in politics you dont have to completely write off anything. but there is no question that from the beginning 2014 was going to be tough for democrats. the reality is, as voting patterns have become more polarized by age and race...

Cd-10. congressman frank wolf announced he was not going to run again but democrats cant recruit a top-flight candidate for a district that ought to be an easy pick-up. this is verifying what democratic would-be candidates are learning around the country. >> there is no question that from the beginning 2014 was going to be tough for democrats. the reality is, as voting patterns have become more polarized by age and race, mid-term electorate is older around whiter when 65% of whites over 45 are v...

Obamacare and government overreach. the president won re-election in 2012 talking about this populous middle class, champion of these ladders of opportunity. if those are the competing narratives in 2014, obamacare on the one hand, champion being the middle class on the other, which is the stronger argument? >> well, obamacare is such a problem for so many people. and negative emotions tend to outweigh positive emotions in voting patterns. when you have a large segment of the population that has...