Demographers recently predicted the world population will increase by approximately 6 million people every decade. According to Walters, it is therefore a conservative estimate that by the year 2025 there will be 50 million individuals on earth. The second major contributor to low voter turnout is cultural change, Walters said, noting that the majority of California's population is no longer white. The marked decline in the percentage of white population can be attributed in part to the massive numbers of immigrants arriving in California per year. We're talking about something much bigger.
Population growth affects political issues such as land use, water distribution, education and food.
This is an area where partisan control changes hands periodically, from Republican to Democrat. Although many fail to cast their opinion at the polls, Walters noted the general trend is that Republicans are more successful in nonpresidential elections, while Democratic campaigns tend to prevail in the presidential elections. Walters talked about his disappointment with the expected voter turnout this year. Twenty percent of real-life voters will have children in public schools. Now, as polls are calculated for the Nov. 3 election, there seems to be evidence of an evening up of the two major political parties while the ranks of the unaffiliated parties, including the Green Peace and the Libertarians, has grown.