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Poll Shows Widening Racial Gap In Presidential Contest[R=60% White Vote:O=80% Black & Hispanic Vote]
Washington Post ^ | October 25, 2012 | Jon Cohen and Rosalind S. Helderman

Posted on 10/25/2012 11:35:06 PM PDT by Steelfish

Poll Shows Widening Racial Gap In Presidential Contest

Jon Cohen and Rosalind S. Helderman October 25

The 2012 election is shaping up to be more polarized along racial lines than any presidential contest since 1988, with President Obama experiencing a steep drop in support among white voters from four years ago.

At this stage in 2008, Obama trailed Republican John McCain by seven percentage points among white voters. Even in victory, Obama ended up losing white voters by 12 percentage points, according to that year’s exit poll.

But now, Obama has a deficit of 23 percentage points, trailing Republican Mitt Romney 60 percent to 37 percent among whites, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News national tracking poll. That presents a significant hurdle for the president — and suggests that he will need to achieve even larger margins of victory among women and minorities, two important parts of the Democratic base, to win reelection.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; blackvote; whitevote
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1 posted on 10/25/2012 11:35:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

The US is becoming more and more like the Congo with voting now based along tribal lines. Blacks and Hispanics are part of a permanent plantation class tended to by the Rats.


2 posted on 10/25/2012 11:37:39 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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US immigration policy has been discriminating against whites for decades. Too bad no one in office has the stones to bring it up, let alone propose a change. Absent that, even if Romney wins, the elected officials in the US will be more and more left wing and radical as the years go by.


3 posted on 10/25/2012 11:41:49 PM PDT by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Steelfish

During recent comments to the Des Moines Register editorial board, Obama said: “I will just be very blunt. Should I win a second term, a big reason I will win a second term is because the Republican nominee and the Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing demographic group in the country, the Latino community.”

So do Hispanics now get to decide a US Presidential Election?


4 posted on 10/25/2012 11:42:41 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish
The WaPost sees the election through racial eyes.

Republicans = Whites = Racists

5 posted on 10/25/2012 11:43:03 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Steelfish

One white woman here for Romney. Why are all women listed with the minorities?


6 posted on 10/25/2012 11:46:09 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Steelfish

So, white voters are fairly evenly spread across both parties while minority voters tend to be racially polarized and lockstep conformists.

Not surprising, but as time goes along and they become more sophisticated you’ll see more diversity in their political thinking. Meanwhile, though, you can see that they are prone to groupthink and susceptible to the race-baiters.


7 posted on 10/25/2012 11:49:08 PM PDT by marron
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To: Steelfish

The most despised and vilified “class” in the United States is the white, heterosexual male.


8 posted on 10/25/2012 11:51:04 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Steelfish

“Racial”? Or “economical”?


9 posted on 10/25/2012 11:52:26 PM PDT by tsowellfan (KEEP WORKING like we are 10 POINTS DOWN!!!!)
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To: MacMattico
Silly, you are supposed to vote for Obama with your lady parts.
10 posted on 10/25/2012 11:53:12 PM PDT by funfan
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To: MacMattico
Silly, you are supposed to vote for Obama with your lady parts.
11 posted on 10/25/2012 11:53:29 PM PDT by funfan
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To: ought-six
The most despised and vilified “class” in the United States is the white, CHRISTIAN heterosexual male.
12 posted on 10/25/2012 11:54:19 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Steelfish

Rolling Stones Magazine exposed Obama as a foul mouthed angry black man.


13 posted on 10/25/2012 11:55:28 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Winning is Everything.)
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To: ought-six

And leading the vilification is the white-owned liberal media, the professional classes, union thugs and teachers unions, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and Hollywood scum.


14 posted on 10/25/2012 11:55:40 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Part of the problem with conservatives is that we allow liberals to Balkanize this country.

We are heading the way of Yugoslavia and liberals are leading us down this primrose path of self-destruction.

We also allow liberals to divide this country as white, black, Latino, and Asian.

Only idiotic liberals believe that Latinos are all the same and Asians are all the same.

Or that even all Americans of European descent are the same.

Europe, Latin America, and Asia are massive continents where people have their own individual state identities and cultures.

Either conservatives need to attack the Balkanization head on or we need to play divide and conquer and make distinctions of respect that liberals don’t make.

For example, there is a huge distinction between Mexicans and the rest of Latin America. Most Latin Americans hate Mexicans.

There is no such thing as a monolithic Latino identity.

That is a liberal racial creation in order to justify attacking white people and conservatives.

And ironically enough, Latinos in Latin America are mostly European Americans. There is no Spaniard race just like these is no English or Irish race.

Only liberals have decided to create a brown race in order to destroy this country.


15 posted on 10/25/2012 11:56:09 PM PDT by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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To: Kennard

Written by 2 white liberal=guilt ridden liberals, who also happen to live in a white neighborhood and have no non-white friends.


16 posted on 10/25/2012 11:57:08 PM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: funfan
My lady parts cringe at the thought of Obama!
17 posted on 10/25/2012 11:57:29 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Steelfish

Pretty clever combining blacks and Hispanics together to make Hispanics look like a monolithic group in support of Obama.


18 posted on 10/26/2012 12:03:52 AM PDT by PressurePoint
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To: MacMattico

You didn’t get a tingle up your leg?


19 posted on 10/26/2012 12:03:52 AM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: max americana

No tingle anywhere!!


20 posted on 10/26/2012 12:08:19 AM PDT by MacMattico
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