How To Put Numbers in Context During an Election Year

I have bad news for all of us. The non-stop media coverage of politics has already started and it’s an election year here in the US. Now that the voting for Presidential primaries has started, you’ll likely start seeing a lot of reports about momentum, winners, losers and general predictions about the sentiment of the nation based on biased polling.

To help us all get ready, I thought it might be useful to share a few facts about demographics in America that put commonly shared numbers into conte...