In the second of a three-part series on the Donald Trump phenomenon, RealClearPolitics examines the likelihood and potential impact of a 2016 Republican candidate reversing the decline of white voter participation in presidential elections.
In the immediate wake of the 2012 elections, I wrote a piece entitled The Case of the Missing White Voters. The thesis was pretty simple: that a large portion of the demographic change we saw in the 2012 electorate was not due to increased turnout, but rather a drop in white participation.
Read the article “Cruz, Trump and the Missing White Voters” on realclearpolitics.com.
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