Hello everybody and welcome to the talk number
33 that's right. I want to thank everybody for that number 32 video and all the views. It's still giddy
So thank you very much for checking it out. And from that video of getting my hair shaved off
I still have the comb. Maybe I should use it because there's really no hair there. It's just more to itch. Maybe I don't know
Let's get started. Let's do this
This video is going to be about the
2014
midterm elections
Why because it's four years later
and today is the 2018 midterm elections, and I'm kind of curious if the same thing is going to happen as
What happened in 2014?
That's right. Not very many people even showed up to vote
Let's find out why check this out. So let's look at the population of, Illinois
It hasn't changed much from 2014. But we're pushing about twelve point eight million people
That's how many people live here in Illinois. Let's start with that number. They don't all vote and here's why
One of the more obvious breakout reasons that not all twelve point eight million people vote
Some of them are not old enough to vote yet. So we're here in Illinois back in 2014
23 percent of the population or 2.9 million. They just were not old enough yet
So that left nine point eight million people or 77 percent left that we're actually old enough and could vote
Let's take a look at that number and see who showed up at the polls in 2014
There's a percent of the population like 9 percent as this chart shows
That even they were old enough to vote
They were just not eligible to vote and there's a lot of reasons behind that. I could do a whole video about
Why someone would become ineligible there's felony reasons. There's lots of reasons but there's 9 percent
They were just old enough. They were just not eligible, but look at that gray area
62% of the population of Illinois just chose not to
Didn't vote at all
That was six point two million people did not go
So, what does that leave us with in the green area that left us with?
27 percent
Three point six million people picked who is going to be in office
For the twelve point eight million people that live in Illinois
It's interesting because if you're running for an office
That's what you want
You look at that green sector he say we don't have to win 50 percent of twelve point eight million people
We just got to get the most votes out of what's in that green sector right there
Yeah, and there was your Illinois stats, right? What about on a nationwide scale? Let's do that. Same thing all over again
Instead of just one state. How was it looking on a nationwide scale of all of America in 2014?
Let's take a look. So talking about this on a nationwide scale
the midterm election in 2014 the USA
Population is pretty much still the same a little over three hundred and nineteen million people live here the United States
There's your trivia for the day
Let's find out how that broke out the same way as Illinois why people didn't vote. Let's let's take a look at that
Well the first obvious breakout that we did for the Illinois pie chart. I used it here. So
23% of the population just were not old enough to vote yet. That's 73 million. That's kind of coincides with
Illinois and just like our Illinois state
Chart that I had up. There's a percentage in this case a 7% of people. They were just not eligible to vote
They were of age but they still could not vote that left the big gray area
64% of who could vote did not just didn't go. So how many people did they actually leave?
There you have it in 2014 on a nationwide scale
25% of the people who could vote or 83 million people actually went out there and they voted and once again
when running for office
That's you have people that can look and try and refine who's in that green
Sector and how can they make themselves more prominent to people that are in that sector?
Because the people who go to the polls are the ones that get people elected, so that's who you want
So a so 83 million people
picked and
got people in office for
319
Amazing absolutely amazing
Let's get back to the real video. See you in a second. Well there you have it. Hope you enjoyed the quick stats
This is 2018
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