As we mentioned in an earlier post, the press has an increasing interest in the military vote. It seems reporters are discovering that the supposed powerful Republican voting bloc is not in fact so powerful. Today, Diane Tucker, writer for the Huffington Post called after reading the article by Patrick Donohue in the Beaufort Gazette. [...]
We are going to go out on a limb and predict that the military will vote Democrat over Republican this year by a ratio of about 1.2 to 1. This prediction is based on demographics, historical military voter turnout, and the evident excitement about Barak Obama among black Americans. If military blacks turnout to vote [...]
There appears to be growing interest among the press about the political behavior (read, how do they vote) of our American military personnel, particularly the enlisted ranks. We have known for some time that officers, particularly senior officers, tend to be overwhelmingly conservative in attitude and identify with the Republican party. The problem is that [...]
