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yardwork

(61,599 posts)

5. Every vote counts, but 59% of white people voted for Romney.

Reply to mucifer (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:25 AM

Nov 2012

Only 41% of all white voters voted for Obama. If it were up to only us white folks, Obama would have lost big. That doesn't mean that our votes for Obama didn't count. As you say, he needed every vote. There's a difference between looking at individual voters and demographic groups. It's no reflection on you and me that 59% of the white vote went to Romney - we represent part of the 41% who voted for Obama.

Don't take the demographic results personally.

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So President Obama won because there are so many young non-white people? [View all] Still Blue in PDX Nov 2012 OP

They stayed home, perhaps theyre arent that dumb? Puzzledtraveller Nov 2012 #1

I know. I hate the reasoning that LGBT or African Americans or Jews or Hispanics or whoever mucifer Nov 2012 #2

Well said. It was Americans uniting and fighting back. lalalu Nov 2012 #4

Every vote counts, but 59% of white people voted for Romney. yardwork Nov 2012 #5

Actually, as a white Jewish woman, I fall into the "we voted for the President " category mucifer Nov 2012 #8

As a lesbian, I do too! yardwork Nov 2012 #12

You're right. We all did it. nt Still Blue in PDX Nov 2012 #18

What worries me is that they are agitating for removal of suffrage for women, minorities, etc. and I LiberalLoner Nov 2012 #3

Not anymore. Obama and the Senate now get to choose new Supreme Court justices if any retire. yardwork Nov 2012 #7

Where did you see this information? They think they have the power to efhmc Nov 2012 #15

It is another part of the FOX attempt to paint Democrats as "OTHER." WinkyDink Nov 2012 #6

yep laundry_queen Nov 2012 #22

President Obama won because there are so many educated people Coyotl Nov 2012 #9

Obama's percent among white voters matched '92 Bill Clinton kerouac2 Nov 2012 #10

Two old, white Obama-voting folks in this household. OnionPatch Nov 2012 #11

Exactly right. nt Still Blue in PDX Nov 2012 #16

Obama won because of women Quantess Nov 2012 #13

They still haven't got a clue. efhmc Nov 2012 #14

At this point I thought that they will ever find it. BelleCarolinaPeridot Nov 2012 #24

i have 5 young white kids blueknight Nov 2012 #17

Amazing, isn't it? They acknowledged that half of what ecstatic Nov 2012 #19

What Republican heavyweights? Jack Rabbit Nov 2012 #25

good point. nt ecstatic Nov 2012 #30

I sort of disagree with your idea that so-called-heavyweights "sat out" 2012. Quantess Nov 2012 #26

Interesting. thanks nt ecstatic Nov 2012 #29

Smiling, always, because Obama won! Quantess Nov 2012 #33

Demographics usually don't lie. Whites voted for Romney 60-40, but Latinos coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #20

I want to agree with you but the numbers just don't bear us out. dawg Nov 2012 #21

Wife and I are both 49, eldest is 21. We're all white - three PA votes for Obama. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #23

I'm A Middle-Aged White Man, And So Are Most Of My Friends ChoppinBroccoli Nov 2012 #27

That's what I was thinking, too. Still Blue in PDX Nov 2012 #31

Old white voters went for Romney, but young whites went for Obama. reformist2 Nov 2012 #28

Thank you for pointing this out. sibelian Nov 2012 #32