Pew: White vote down 22 points, GOP ‘faces big challenges’

By Paul Bedard

Published June 4, 2015 5:54pm ET

The GOP-leaning white vote has declined from 87 percent to just 65 percent of the vote over the past several decades, threatening the Republican Party, according to a top Pew Research Center analyst.

Carroll Doherty, the director of political research for Pew, said that the “Republican Party faces big challenges going forward. The demographics are not favorable.”