Tag: republican

Purging inactive voter registrations in North Carolina

After the recent presidential election, I was updating my graphs of the voter registration data and noticed that the number of registered voters decreased after the election. At first I thought that was odd, but then I realized that maybe inactive voters were being purged. I wanted to find out […]

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91% of the US didn’t vote for Hillary or Trump!

How is it that 91% of the US didn’t vote for either Hillary or Trump in the primary, but yet they’re still the final two candidates in the presidential election? Let’s break it down with a simple graph! I recently saw a really cool slideshow on the nytimes website, that answered […]

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Walking the line, between politics and religion

I usually try to avoid political or religious debates … but as an impartial data analyst, it is possible to analyze data about something, without entering into the debate. In this blog post, I try to walk that fine line, and analyze data about the political leanings of religious groups in the US. […]

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Will independent voters decide the election?

In recent years, more and more people have been registering as independent voters in the US, rather than Democrat or Republican – the independents now control well over 1/3 of the votes. Will they likely vote for the Democrat or Republican candidates in the upcoming election? Let’s break down some numbers […]

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