It's kind of lame that it's only 60% nationwide. In some southern states, it's 80%. If we could get 80% nationwide, or even 70%, the Democrats would become perennial also-rans.
It's probably those higher numbers among white males. Single white females is where the GOP gets hurt.
I spent the evening trying to the article I thought I remembered seeing the fact that; "Last November the GOP got 60% of the white vote for the first time in history." I couldn't, but I found this National Journal article that agrees with the fact that the GOP got 60 % of the white vote for members of the House of Representatives.
Here's an interesting excerpt:
Much can change in two years—as Obama’s own post-2008 odyssey demonstrates. These results, however, could carry profound implications for 2012. They suggest that economic recovery alone may not solve the president’s problems with many of the white voters who stampeded toward the Republican Party last year. “It comes down to that those voters are very skeptical of the expansion of government,” says Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams, a veteran strategist. “The voters who went with Obama in 2008 did not know what they were going to get with that vote. Now that they’ve seen the health care bill, the stimulus bill, the bailout, the cap-and-trade proposal—issue after issue, they don’t like what they see.”Colorado maybe, but NC where the GOP just took over the legislature and control redistricting, and AZ which was sued by the feds over their new illegal alien law that was approved by 70% of AZ voters. Good luck with that.That resistance could, in turn, increase the pressure on Obama to accelerate the generation-long transformation of the Democratic electoral coalition that he pushed forward in 2008. With so much of the white electorate, especially working-class whites, dubious about the president’s direction, to win a second term he will likely need to increase turnout and improve his showing among the groups that keyed his 2008 victory—minorities, young people, and white-collar white voters, especially women. In 2012, Obama may be forced to build his Electoral College map more around swing states where those voters are plentiful (such as Colorado, North Carolina, and even Arizona) and less on predominantly blue-collar and white states such as Ohio and Indiana that he captured in 2008.
This author says not only are the Jacksoians are gone, at least for the near to midterm, but that the rats had significant losses among working class whites and suburbia last November. Combined with his dismal performance as commander in chief, it looks like Obama is behind the 8 ball, IMHO.