Nothing to grump about here. Pat Buchanan is very afraid.
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- The electorate in the 2008 U.S. presidential election was the most diverse in the nation's history, an analysis found.
The Pew Research Center analysis found that nearly one-in-four votes in the Nov. 4 election were cast by non-whites. Blacks, Hispanics and Asians each accounted for unprecedented shares of the presidential vote, the survey found.
Pew said overall, whites made up 76.3 percent of the 131 million people who voted in the presidential election. Blacks made up 12.1 percent of the electorate, Hispanics 7.4 percent and Asians 2.5 percent.
For blacks, the voter turnout rate increased 4.9 percentage points from 2004, researcher said -- from 60.3 percent in 2004 to 65.2 percent in 2008.
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