Posted on 11/07/2012 6:24:31 AM PST by MNDude
Mitt Romney won white voters by 20 points in today’s presidential election, according to exit polls, which is the same margin that Ronald Reagan won that demographic by in his 1980 landslide over Jimmy Carter. But given that white voters are a smaller percentage of the electorate these days and he’s doing poorly among minority voters, Romney is on the cusp of losing the election. In 1980, Reagan won white voters 56 percent to 36 percent, with third party candidate John Anderson taking 8 percent of the vote. He ended up beating Carter by 10 points and winning 44 states.
Romney has won white voters by the same 20-point margin, 59 percent to 39 percent. But the big difference is that in 1980, whites were 88 percent of the electorate, whereas in this election, they were just 73 percent.
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Why did they kick out the GOP in Ohio on Election Day?
Sorry something smells fishy and I’m not the conspiracy type.
If he’ll post a forged document on the WH website just to hide whatever it is he’s hiding he’ll do ANYTHING.
Most Blacks and Hispanics will never go for the GOP because the GOP doesn’t offer enough freebies.
It IS enough if they’d come out and you know, actually vote in numbers like women, but they don’t, and haven’t for the last few elections.
It reminds me of a person who lost a fight but says well I did well during second round. Big woop. Romney lost and lost badly. Next time we should pick a conservative instead of a liberal. Liberal against liberal you might as well pick the liberal you have already since nothing changes (that was said by many liberals). We conservatives better get out heads out of our butts and stop this stupidity that polls are wrong and that we were going to beat Obama by 40 states....how stupid people were here. Anyway, Thank God Santorum is young enough to run in 2016. I am convinced he would have won because he would have given voters a difference between two candidates. Romney vs Obama was not even a different choice. It was basically the same choice with a different letter behind their names. Conservatives better wake the heck up.
They stole it in the cities and through early voting. Just look at the county map. Solid red except for city pockets of blue.
Listening to descriptions of how “Democrats got out their ground game” with “superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go” by commentators on Fox election night....made me realize..what the Dems have is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and voting them. Probably by mail.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..you’ll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.
lol sure
You’re not winning ANY of those poeple unless you start doling out the government benefits and even then why go with liberal lite when you can have the real thing? Not only that but what planet do you live? Are you around any black people or Hispanics? Do you understand the culturally engrained mindset that they have about how white people and white men in particular are basically the root to all evil? Do you not get this is what they get preached to even in their so-called churches and schools in their communities.
How you gonna reach out to people who hate you and don’t trust or respect you.
Trust me you’re off on this one.
As I recall, Reagan did much better with minorities as well, anyone have the statistics?
Until we understand that politics is a zero sum game and you don't get to play unless you win we'll go on losing.
Let Akin and Mourdock be our best examples. You need to sell the honey and not the vinegar. Voters aren't interested in debating fine theological points. They're making a trust decision and if you sound like a nut, well...
That was the key - the Reagan Democrats - Reagan had a message for the AMERICAN PEOPLE - not just some %. His message was positive and inclusive and resonated with people.
“Whites in the US will go the same way as whites in Africa, be afraid.”
I was laying in bed last night and could not sleep thinking about the election and that very thought came to my mind too...I pray to keep a clean heart but I feel outright hatred for the media (who refuses to report it) and these predators who are running the streets in this country NOW targeting people just because they are white....And every time I watch that video of Romney arriving at the airport in PA. to that HUGE crowd and the sorry turnout for the thug rallies something just does not fit when I am expected to just accept low turnout as the reason for the loss of this election.....I really wasn’t motivated for Romney, I was motivated to get Obama the hell out of there as were millions of others......Fraud on a grand scale.....
WELCOME TO GREECE!!! see you at the riots for 2 month summer vacations and retirement at 55.
me, gonna go get me a gyro and some baklava....
....and bury my guns in pvc pipe.
I don’t think conservatives and conservative republicans need to change their message, they need to get their message out and understood in minority communities. Just as Obama painted Romney as an evil, uncaring rich guy that hated women and minorities, the Democratic party has painted conservatives in the same light. Even most legal immigrants resent illegal immigration — it makes them look bad and they know a lot of criminals cross illegally. Many minorities are socially conservative. The fear of the Republican party has no basis in fact, just a face that has been painted on us by the idiotic left. They created a fake war on women— my gender stupidly fell for it. The hardest obstacle to overcome, in my opinion, is not our ideology but the outright “free stuff†bribery of a democratic welfare state that will bankrupt us all.
We had good candidates, we had good issues. But the reality is that elections are now decided by ethnic groups. The Democrats have been gathering up blacks, Latinos, Asians, Muslims. The Democrats continually call their opposition “racist”. Until we deal with these facts in earnest, we’re going to keep losing.
As long as the Democrats can maintain an iron hold on the ethnic minorities, we will lose.
The problem is that white turnout was below 2008 levels. For whatever reason, numerous portions of the electorate stayed home. The attack ads against Romney didn’t switch votes to Obama as much as they got blue collar white folks to not bother voting.
The problem is that white turnout was below 2008 levels. For whatever reason, numerous portions of the electorate stayed home. The attack ads against Romney didn’t switch votes to Obama as much as they got blue collar white folks to not bother voting.
” Next time we should pick a conservative instead of a liberal. “
And yet, in Indiana, Romney won and Mourdock lost. Missoury, Romney won, Akin lost. What was the difference?
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