Who Isn't Voting?

Estimates this morning are that just under two-thirds of eligible voters (64%) participated in the election, which would be the largest voter turnout in exactly 100 years. (65.4% of eligible voters participated in 1908, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census.)

That led me to wonder — who isn't voting?

The most substantial indicators seem to be age and education. According to the statistics from 2004, young adults had the lowest voting and registration rates, though they had the largest increase in both since the 2000 presidential election, compared with all other age groups. (Exit poll data put estimates of voters under 30 in this election at more or less the same percentage as in the recent past.) And voters with a college degree were about twice as likely to vote as those who had not completed high school.

It should be interesting to see how that statistic might change this year, with the efforts that have been put toward recruiting new voters and motivating them to follow through — there was an estimate of as many as 3.5 million new voters this year, according to Associated Press. I wonder — who are they?