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HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
22. Obama got more of the white vote than Kerry or Gore did.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:31 AM
Mar 2012
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1023/exit-poll-analysis-2008

"He also gained seven points among African American voters (95% vs. 88% for Kerry), and managed to slightly improve on Kerry's share of the white vote (43% vs. 41% for Kerry)."

http://jonathantilove.com/dems-white-vote/

"In the virtual tie of the 2000 election, Gore won 42 percent of the white vote and Bush, 53 percent."


So whites supported Obama more strongly than they have the last two Democratic candidates.

In 1996, Clinton got 48% of the white vote v. Bush's 44%. And that was a good year for the Democrats.

http://bdeco.tripod.com/presidentialregions/characteristics.html


On edit: I think the important split is not on racial issues (albeit those are given most coverage in the media), but by economic and "cultural" issues. I don't like the national review people, but I think they're right in saying that the Democrats have been losing the white working class.

and on second edit, I add this about cultural issues:

"In Ohio, according to exit polls conducted by the National Election Pool,Bush won 16 percent of the black vote, up from 9 percent in 2000....With those additional 110,000 black votes, Bositis said, the identity of the next president might still be in doubt.

Bush scored a similar gain with black voters in the battleground states of Florida, where the 13 percent contributed to his comfortable victory, and in Pennsylvania, where Democrats were able to absorb the 16 percent and still win.

The lessons for both parties are profound. For Republicans, it demonstrates that even a small success with black voters can pay huge dividends, and that their opening to the black community is through the church door and an appeal to a strong strain of conservative Christian values."

http://jonathantilove.com/bush-black-vote/
how is it a corporate money maker? cali Mar 2012 #1
You really don't think guns and gunrunning are a corporate interest? lunatica Mar 2012 #3
I don't think your op was well argued cali Mar 2012 #10
Obama got more of the white vote than Kerry or Gore did. HiPointDem Mar 2012 #22
While in part it has political and corporate agendas, edgineered Mar 2012 #2
So you believe we all have violent racism in our hearts? lunatica Mar 2012 #4
That's one long jump you're making. I believe I have failed the test of edgineered Mar 2012 #6
I have no idea what you're talking about lunatica Mar 2012 #7
To some the responsibility of becoming a better person rests on the shoulders of others. edgineered Mar 2012 #9
And that is why the likes of Rmoney can say publicly that President Obama is destroying malaise Mar 2012 #5
+1 Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #11
K&R.. butterfly77 Mar 2012 #8
Totally agree. ananda Mar 2012 #12
kick lunatica Mar 2012 #13
They're locking their gates... YellowRubberDuckie Mar 2012 #14
They have the burgeoning economies in China and India lunatica Mar 2012 #17
Racism is one of the reasons why the GOP can get so many to vote against their own self interest. applegrove Mar 2012 #15
I agree. Racism is a political wedge issue which they want to exploit, not fix lunatica Mar 2012 #16
Yup. Sold their souls in order to not pay much in taxes if they are rich: foment hatred, stifle any applegrove Mar 2012 #19
Republicans appeal to the lowest evolved form of humans out there. alp227 Mar 2012 #20
Thank you for so much information. You should make it an OP. Just copy it and paste it. I do that applegrove Mar 2012 #21
I agree with applegrove. Start a new OP thread lunatica Mar 2012 #23
There are enough guns in the world to arm 1 in 12 people........... socialist_n_TN Mar 2012 #18
And to add to your post, religion is front and center in the big war going on now lunatica Mar 2012 #24
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