Again, turnout in 2012 was skewed by the fact that millions of conservatives, and I assume that means mostly white men and women, stayed home during that election due to the candidate presented, and I thought that was universally accepted as a fact, but I may be mistaken. (One Caveat here that I will admit I have not considered is that white women voters in 2012 were higher in overall numbers but their percentages voting for the left did not match my analysis, so I’ll have to go back and look at that again).
The same holds true for the midterms, but in reverse. Minority numbers as a whole were nowhere near the numbers, in the majority of precincts, as those in 2012 during the presidential election.
If I get the time in the near future, I will see if I can take the numbers from both elections and actually come up with some useful percentages that will either refute my beliefs or prove them. I will be happy to be wrong, as I said, but my analysis does not make me believe I am, although, as I said before, I could be wrong, and would be happy to be so.
Romney received 1 million more votes than McCain did in 2008. Obama received 3 million less votes than he did in 2008, but still won by 5 million votes. So whose voters really stayed home?
In the 2012 election, whites made up 72% of the electorate and in 2014 75%. Mid term voters are whiter and older than during Presidential elections.