With Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp having recently signed into law a voter suppression bill that civil rights activists are vehemently protesting against, Republicans in state legislatures all over the country are pushing equally repressive bills. Conservative Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin, this week in her column, emphasizes that Republicans are deathly afraid of evolving demographics. And she points to recent data from the Democratic firm TargetSmart and Gallup as evidence of why the GOP is so worried and is resorting to blatant voter suppression.
TargetSmart, Rubin notes, has “compiled information on more than 98% of those who cast ballots last year.” The firm reports that “non-college educated Whites dropped from 53.8% of the electorate in 2016 to 49.2% in 2020” and that “nationally, total turnout increased by 12% relative to 2016, turnout among (Asian-American and Pacific Islander) voters surged by 43%, and Latino turnout increased by almost a third of all votes cast.”
Rubin notes that although former President Donald Trump performed better among Latinos in 2020 than he did in 2016, he “still lost 65% of these voters.” Continue reading.