Who votes in California? A new study says it tends to be older, whiter, richer people. At the same time, voters are concerned about that and want the state to do something about it.
The survey from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund found a huge disconnect between what California’s population looks like and what its electorate looks like. Regular voters are disproportionately older, white homeowners who went to college and are married. People who vote infrequently or not at all tend to be younger, single, renters, unmarried and non-white. And many of those who don’t vote say it’s because they don’t know enough about the issues and candidates, or because they’re just not interested in politics and elections.
For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart and KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke with Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause.
