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Democrats Need More Kids

One of the most complex jobs in politics, or in the job market in general, includes attempting to forecast the future. In politics, that specifically includes predicting the results of the next election. With so many variables bidding for votes, political analysts and pollsters try to decide what has the potential to become the influential issues that could swing votes and determine the election, especially in today’s amazingly narrow margins between the parties and the volatility of the swing states. However important the issues, though, demographics do tell a considerable amount about how people will vote. The Party Platforms cater to certain groups of people who are concerned with similar issues. Gathering support within these specific groups, however, have some implicit consequences, not obvious to the common person. The Democratic Party, for instance, is showing a significantly smaller birthrate than the Republican Party. This could mean trouble for the Democratic Party in the long run because although not everyone votes like their parents, the vast majority does.
Analyzing current birthrates and polls concerning voting trends can help clarify the Democratic ‘Fertility Gap’, the reasons for it and the consequences for the country. Concerns lay with long term shifts in voter strength, so over time, for this analysis’ purposes issues such as the global war on terrorism and the Iraqi campaign, though will be considered, are not foreseen as huge voter determinants. In the long run, they could be incredibly significant as well as the trends of the “sleeping giant”—the huge Hispanic population whose immigration and votes can have an enormous impact on American Politics. For this analysis, the discussion centers on the correlation between religion, social-economic situation and party identification. The platform of the Democratic Party is attractive to people who naturally will have lower birthrates which may be detrimental to the Democratic Party because its...