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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hey DU Family What Do You Think About This? The Bad News About White People: Romney Won the White [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)49. +1,000...I get the point the guy was sort of trying to make, but he put his
racism way out in front of his facts. That kind of 'fuzzy math' isn't helpful, I don't think, though the point that a lot of furious white guys were in MoneyBooBoo's corner is certainly valid. He could have made the point in another way, I think.
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Hey DU Family What Do You Think About This? The Bad News About White People: Romney Won the White [View all]
HoosierRadical
Nov 2012
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I'm thinking White people who vote Democratic are an minority within the White population...
HoosierRadical
Nov 2012
#20
99,279,344 whites didn't vote for Romney, plus 34,252,066 who voted for Obama
Tigress DEM
Nov 2012
#47
OR... well OVER half the white population DID NOT vote for racist policies.
Tigress DEM
Nov 2012
#48
No middle class or working class person regardless of ethnicity should have voted for Romney...
HoosierRadical
Nov 2012
#22
I don't think it's racist to merely cite exit polls. Is it also racist to point out that
totodeinhere
Nov 2012
#29
You are part of the 40% who didn't fall for the race-baiting BS the GOP was selling...
HoosierRadical
Nov 2012
#23
This old white man didn't vote for Romney and I think those statistics are bull for many areas
Jersey Devil
Nov 2012
#12
Not my family. We all went Obama. Racism is stupid on all levels. Obama's the man we need right now.
HopeHoops
Nov 2012
#19
The good news is that white people are becoming less of the majority every year
treestar
Nov 2012
#25
I think the GOP is in deep shit. The US isn't going to become more white. n/t
gkhouston
Nov 2012
#27
I hear what you're saying but we are not there yet. Whites remain a majority
totodeinhere
Nov 2012
#41
Isn't labeling it Old white people wrong. 40% of whites voted for Obama so....
barbiegeek
Nov 2012
#34
Poppy Bush won it by the same amount in 1988, and won the country in a landslide
Adenoid_Hynkel
Nov 2012
#42