Midterm Election not a National Mood, it was a Shift in Demographics

Here’s something to ruminate over your lunch hour.

I like graphic statistical representations – bars and pie slices and such. I tend to zone out with sequenced numbers and spread sheets. So I’m always on the look-out for cool graphs (I own the nerdiness in that statement).

I found this one, about the age difference of the voters in the mid tern election in comparison to the 2008 presidential election:

I found the graph in The Society Pages website, in a page titled Sociological images. It was taken from a blog written by Mathew Iglesias called Thinkprogressive.org.

Here’s what The Society Pages had to say: “In the midterm election last week Republicans took the House and won eight seats in the Senate. Their win, however, as Matthew Yglesias puts it, doesn’t simply reflect the “national mood.” Instead, it was partly a reflection of a shift in the demographics of the voters who turned out. Young voters still lean Democratic, and many more of them stayed home last Tuesday than two years ago.”