Obama's decision to campaign -- er, conduct official business -- on university campuses last week was not surprising. According to exit polls, there was no surge of young voters in 2008.

The 2012 congressional redistricting cycle following the 2010 Census is just about over and done with. And it seems likely to make much less difference than many of us expected.

The Hispanic vote is increasingly referenced as a crucial component of victory in U.S. national elections.

Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the American population? That's what some analysts of the 2010 census results say.

A now-irrelevant provision of the Voting Rights Act may soon be no more.

There has been a lot of talk of the disappearing middle in Congress, but few have noticed that there is a growing and moderate force in Congress. It is congressional Hispanics.

A summary of Charles S. Bullock and Ronald Keith Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in California.

For months, former senator Rick Santorum has been talking about working-class woes and promoting a working-class-friendly economic agenda.