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In the discussion thread: GREAT CHART: The white establishment, undone by hordes of various-colored people who demand stuff. [View all]

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Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:36 AM

jp11 (2,104 posts)

41. More that the GOP's race-based party positions are what doomed him in addition to all his

own failings as a candidate, human, etc.

Constantly pissing on different voter blocks isn't a winning strategy as the only one you seem to be chasing becomes less significant over time all the while taking your marching orders from an even tinier percentage of the population namely the rich, the radicals, etc.

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54 replies	Author	Time	Post
GREAT CHART: The white establishment, undone by hordes of various-colored people who demand stuff. [View all]	kpete	Nov 2012	OP
"That's why they're the losers"	bhikkhu	Nov 2012	#1
it just occurred to me	barbtries	Nov 2012	#4
Very good point!	intheflow	Nov 2012	#30
Great! Does anyone know where a comparable gender chart might be found?	left coaster	Nov 2012	#2
Note that over half of Obama voters are white...	Scuba	Nov 2012	#3
It always was. We need to continue to work through 2014.	freshwest	Nov 2012	#5
On the Key & Peele (Comedy Central) Luther, President Obama's anger translator said...	Up2Late	Nov 2012	#15
That was one funny sketch.	hifiguy	Nov 2012	#21
Your post reminded me of a story from sometime ago that still makes me smile	maui902	Nov 2012	#53
Well done!	Up2Late	Nov 2012	#54
No one said "it's just minorities" that got President Obama re-elected.	Major Hogwash	Nov 2012	#29
Actually, a bunch of people are saying just that.	Scuba	Nov 2012	#31
And have been saying it since 2008	nxylas	Nov 2012	#35
This message was self-deleted by its author	fasttense	Nov 2012	#32
Without a doubt, I prefer the company I'm in on the lower bar.	TahitiNut	Nov 2012	#6
Much better music at that bar, too!	mikeytherat	Nov 2012	#10
And food :)	slutticus	Nov 2012	#23
And interestingly, the chart sort of mimics what America has become and will continue to be	maui902	Nov 2012	#11
+1 nt	ProudProgressiveNow	Nov 2012	#50
Obama's strip is an American Genome	trailmonkee	Nov 2012	#7
This graph demonstrates	sally5050	Nov 2012	#8
President	John2	Nov 2012	#22
Back in 04	JNelson6563	Nov 2012	#9
WOW!!!! What the hell was wrong with Rmoney's remaining 12%? Come to think of it,	valerief	Nov 2012	#12
Cool. Now I'm part of the 99% AND the 56%	VWolf	Nov 2012	#13
Great graphic. Would really like to see one like that with third bar for USA demographics. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Nov 2012	#14
STUFF NOT BOMBS!!! STUFF NOT DRONES!!!	librechik	Nov 2012	#16
Now account for gender.	Spitfire of ATJ	Nov 2012	#17
CNN charts, includes gender breakout, but	jtuck004	Nov 2012	#18
Thank you for that link.	yardwork	Nov 2012	#24
it would be helpful if they had been more detailed in the breakouts - in 2008, IIRC,	spooky3	Nov 2012	#46
I haven't the slightest interest in anything bo'reilly says, but I do know that an income	jtuck004	Nov 2012	#52
Republicans are stunned that people voted for THEIR OWN interests and	TwilightGardener	Nov 2012	#19
Good one, TwilightGardener.	luv_mykatz	Nov 2012	#25
That is gonna cause a lot of dyspepsia	hifiguy	Nov 2012	#20
'Us vs. them' took a big hit with the election	ck4829	Nov 2012	#26
Obviously it didn't since there	whistler162	Nov 2012	#27
Very true given that the "blame our problems on 'them' - minorities, women, foreigners, gays, etc.'	pampango	Nov 2012	#34
But, it was the hurricane's fault. It killed the Mittmentum!	Major Hogwash	Nov 2012	#28
I would say President Obama represents America.	aandegoons	Nov 2012	#33
Exactly. n/t	ProSense	Nov 2012	#36
I don't trust those Others. They're fence-sitters. They killed Locke.	Bucky	Nov 2012	#37
Karl Rove finds these numbers very suspicious.	Bucky	Nov 2012	#38
that voter supression stuff turned off people of color to the Repubs for DECADES probably	Liberal_in_LA	Nov 2012	#39
The only demographic the GOP works to attract are white men. And they only got 75% of them.	baldguy	Nov 2012	#40
actually, per the CNN exit poll results, they got only about 2/3 of them.	spooky3	Nov 2012	#48
More that the GOP's race-based party positions are what doomed him in addition to all his	jp11	Nov 2012	#41
RUN!!! THE NON-WHITES ARE COMING!!!!!	CabCurious	Nov 2012	#42
So....	JackInGreen	Nov 2012	#43
I just got a new truck, I told my right wing neighbor I got it free for voting for Obama.	OverBurn	Nov 2012	#44
The GOP's Southen Strategy is to blame.	McCamy Taylor	Nov 2012	#45
I would really like to see the demographics broken down by region of the country.	spooky3	Nov 2012	#47
Dang, Obama didn't do any better with the "others." Each got 2 %.	morningfog	Nov 2012	#49
The comments below the article are depressingly full of racist shit.	Odin2005	Nov 2012	#51

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