The Change Agent

Volume 18: Voting in the 2004 Elections

What Do You Make of This?

Number of Black and Latino United States Senators in 1776, 2003:
0, 0

Number of Americans who cast a vote via telephone on the final night of the Fox Television airing of "American Idol":
15.5 million

Percentage of United States Senators with assets in the millions of dollars: 40

Number of Black and Latino youth who "do not believe they can make a difference in their communities": 6 in 10

Number of 18-25 year old American citizens who voted in the 2000 presidential election:
9.9 million

Percentage of United States families with assets in the millions of dollars: 4

Statistics excerpted from the Drum Major Institute 2003 Injustice Index. http://www.drummajorinstitute.org.
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