Posts Tagged ‘election’
Prop 8 Results
Since part of what I do is try to make data understandable and interpretable, I feel this post fits with my overall blog theme.
At first glance, it looks like the African-American vote is what accounted for the passing of Prop 8 in California. It’s easy to point to that when you see the disproportionate number who voted ‘Yes’ on the exit poll. However, it is difficult to blame this group of people when they make up such as small percentage of the whole. Hopefully a chart helps. Numbers below are based on CNN Exit Poll data, along with the current count of 5,424,916 people who voted ‘Yes’. This assumes that the exit poll is correct to begin with, which it may not be.
Whites accounted for 59% of the ‘Yes’ vote, while Blacks accounted for 18%. Read the rest of this entry »
