How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.Mark Ritchie has ensured he'll get that vote again. Apparently Minnesota is okay with that.
Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes. Votes cast by just 0.65 percent of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin. It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 14,177 votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina’s adult non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Congratulations to Senator Franken. . .
for being the likely beneficiary of illegal voting:
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A republic just doesn't work too well when people don't care about applying laws to their side.
a W is still a W. when the conservatives understand that, then maybe things will start progressing in their direction.
No it won't, Gino. If you've got a spiritually sick people, you're not going to improve matters by winning at all costs. Conservatives' problem is that they've been losing with too little character.
Amen, Ben. It strikes me that the ingredients for good politics are the same as those for effective evangelism; get the word out, love them, get the word out, rinse and repeat. The message is slightly different, but the method is very, very similar.
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