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Voter turnout in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election by race/ethnicity. Race and ethnicity has had an effect on voter turnout in recent years, with data from recent elections such as 2008 showing much lower turnout among people identifying as Hispanic or Asian ethnicity than other voters (see chart to the right).
This played a critical role in North Carolina, as 95% of the state's registered African-American voters turned out, with Obama carrying an unprecedented 100% of African-American women, as well as younger African-Americans aged 18 to 29, according to exit polling. Comparatively, the overall turnout of voters statewide was 69%. [20]
An October 22, 2008 Pew Research Center poll estimated 70% of registered voters believed journalists wanted Barack Obama to win the election, as opposed to 9% for John McCain. [144] Another Pew survey, conducted after the election, found that 67% of voters thought that the press fairly covered Obama, versus 30% who viewed the coverage as unfair.
But in the last two presidential elections, Black voters’ turnout trailed white turnout by 64% to 71% in 2016 and 68% to 79% in 2020. If Democrats want to prevail statewide in 2024, they’ll ...
Eric Heberlig, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said that Black voter turnout in North Carolina has decreased year after year since Barack Obama was ...
With the exception of 2012, when President Barack Obama was seeking his second term, Black voter turnout has been historically lower than white turnout, and it could be lower again this year.
There, Obama won approximately 90 percent of the black vote, compared to Clinton's 70 percent majority of white voters. [145] On March 11, 2008, David Axelrod demanded that Clinton sever ties with Geraldine Ferraro , a top Clinton fundraiser and 1984 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who said publicly that Obama was a major presidential ...
Between the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections alone, the turnout gap grew by 5 percentage points between white voters and nonwhite voters, and it grew by 8 points between white voters and Black ...