Page 45 - Voting Patterns News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Handful of counties outside the south have to be supervised, as you said. and there was a formula in there based on voting patterns in the 1960s. what the supreme court said today by a vote of 5-4 is that times have changed. sometimes have changed so much that that formula is invalid. and we, the united states, cannot use that formula any more to determine which states skr discrimina discriminate, so that part of the law is invalid. what that means in practice is that the other part of the law, section five, which says those states have to be in supervision, that is dormant. that doesn't matte...

Argument, it came up in oral ar uments all the time from skeptical justices, this is a law from the 1960s. do times change? why is this -- >> time has changed but, you know, the legacy of discrimination in the south is still very apparent if you look at voting patterns there. who they elect and who votes in those elections. you know, this is interesting, in 2006 you see how the political will has changed. in 2006 boehner and issa both voted in favor of this law. republicans right now are trying to distance themselves from this case in particular but it's very clear the political will seems to ...

Mentioned shelby county case and fisher case, a big affirmative action which will decided by june in the supreme court. what we see in affirmative is what a scholar called ideological drift, it was at one end of the spectrum, drifts over to the other side of the spectrum, as you were describing in your essay at the beginning. his example is color-blindness. color-blindness comes from dissent. it's seen as idea logically part of the left. now in more recent years it's drifted over in the court's language to be a tool of the right where color-blindness has been a name where affirmative action pr...

So when it comes to the voting patterns of mothers, there's a really stark divide. i think it was revealed in the 2012 election, this is from the exit polls. if you break it down, married mothers, mitt romney last fall, 58 to 41%. unmarried mothers voted for barack obama 74 to 24%. when i looked at that, i was surprised, first of all, to see that romney had won among married mothers. i was assuming that that would be more of a democratic lean. >> well, it was such a significant gender gap. and you can see why. we've got a growing number of unmarried mothers who are by choice and by necessity m...

By the way, i did notice, i love to look at voting patterns like you i'm sure do. i'm studying black caucus members, big city liberals. those are the ones who voted against this deal which gave a great break to the fliers and screwed the people on the ground. >> it goes to show you the many ways in which our congress increasingly battles for the rich. people who can afford a plane ticket or traveling for business. that's what essentially congress is down to. they're serving the interest of the well to do. by the way, a lot of them are well to do. our congress is something like 50% millionaires...