The overall turnout rate fell by nearly two percentage points from the 2008 to 2012 election, driven in part by a large drop in the youth vote. Black voters turned out at a higher rate than any other group in 2012, passing whites for the first time on record.
Source: New York Times
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When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
Every time someone says we’re a lazy and entitled generation I’m going to show them this
They should be happy most of us haven’t moved to the moon yet
That actually sounds like a good idea at this point
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(Source: bostonreview, via cognitivedissonance)
If you’re going to make a big deal about Benghazi, it helps to know where it is on the world map. 39 percent of Americans who see Benghazi as a serious scandal have no idea where it is.
74 percent of Republicans also think Benghazi is a bigger deal than Watergate. I wonder how that 74 percent will feel in the coming months as the news cycle pushes Benghazi off the front burner…
After lying the nation into a major military conflict that resulted in 4.488 U.S. soldiers dead, trillions of dollars spent, a nation wrecked and another thoroughly disgraced in the eyes of the international community, Richard here thinks he has the moral grounding to consider Benghazi a greater tragedy than one he was a part of.
Richard, I think you’d better sit this one out.
I cannot stand that it was bigger news today that Charles Ramsey has a history of domestic violence than that Ariel Castro does.
— Jessica Luther (@scATX) May 9, 2013
The idea that the hero of the story has his own set of glaring faults is something that today’s media can’t help but eat up, even if their focus should be on Ariel Castro and his brothers.
This, too, shall pass. In the meantime, resist the urge to pile on Charles Ramsey for having the gall to be a flawed man. For those who might somehow misconstrue this as a dismissal or condoning of Ramsey’s prior acts, well…you have some issues to work out.
White privilege is finding out one of your friends who is a POC reads this blog. White privilege is then having your POC friend spend 30 minutes comforting you and making sure you know that they do in fact like you the way they are and your white skin is not a hindrance to the friendship, and they…
I helped make these!!
That stops-per-seizure chart, we don’t even…
Bill Cosby on guns.
Also, check out the #BlackPrivilege hash tag on Twitter.
