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Just who were the voteres these elections? Carlo Allegri/Reuters

Minority voters tell their stories

Paru R Shah, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; David Cook Martín, Grinnell College, and Marcus Anthony Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles

Editor’s note: voter turnout in this year’s midterm elections - 36.6% - was lower than in the 2010 midterms (40.9%.) According to the Pew Research Center the “party of non-voters” is more racially diverse…
A chicken and egg problem: more women will stand for office once more women win. Larry Downing/Reuters

Too few minority politicians? You can’t win if you don’t run

Paru R Shah, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

A common complaint about American’s representative democracy is that it is not representative. Across all levels of office, most elected seats in the US continue to be occupied by white, non-Hispanic men…

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