Posted on 11/07/2012 6:52:07 AM PST by KeyLargo
NEW YORK (WLS) - A coalition of women and nonwhites helped re-elect President Obama to a second term Tuesday night.
Obama has always performed better with women than with men, and with nonwhites than with whites. But on Tuesday night, those numbers were so much in his favor that they built Obama a powerful firewall against a dropoff in support from white men and independent voters.
Nonwhite voters turned out to vote in higher numbers than ever. They made up 21 percent of all voters. In 1996, they were just 10 percent.
That new bloc was evident in Florida, the perennial swing state that was thought to be in Mitt Romney's corner. Hispanics came out in force for Obama, in greater numbers than in 2008 when Obama beat John McCain among Hispanics in Florida 57 to 42 percent. On Tuesday, he beat Romney among Hispanics 60 to 39 percent.
And as the country tinted blue for the second presidential election in a row, it also got a little less white.
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Amazing thing is as a kid he spent his summers in Ocean City, NJ.
“For those of you who are calling for a collapse of the current system and then rebuild a better one, history is not on your side.”
The “current system” is headed for a collapse regardless of what we try to do to stop it. It’s going to go down, anyway.
Might as well start planning for the “rebuilding” now.
History may or may not be on our side. But there really won’t be a choice in the matter...
Luntz has essentially been a pet peeve of mine for years.
I think your comments on Morris are quite accurate too.
I’m not on board the rich white guy model, because I don’t buy into race/class/gender politics.
If a policy is a sound one, it will connect with people across demographics. If it’s not, it won’t.
A great policy, cannot always be expected to win. You keep delivering the message until the obvious nature of it becomes too obvious to ignore.
Yep, that means you’re going to lose some elections. Eventually folks come around, and you’re the sage. So far folks are buying the Leftist mantra. Good luck for the Left, when folks see see that mantra for what it is. And they will.
“When Romney stated that there was no sense in working to get the vote of the 47% he was exactly right.”
He may have been exactly right about the problem, but he seems to have been a bit off on the numbers.
Instead of 47%, it looks like it’s closer to 49 or 50 percent.
With 47%, he (and we) had a chance.
At 50%, neither of us do.
“Delay is the only game the GOP has in the Senate right now.”
Not if Harry Reid gets his way:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/7/reid-moves-limit-gop-filibusters/
“I got slated...” By idiots.
Ryan is a good man, but Rubio could have helped with the EC, like you stated.
OTOH, f*ck it...I don’t care anymore.
The Where was the war on women before the contraception mandate on religious organizations became an issue? It did not exist. It was created out of whole cloth.
The Catholic Bishops originally endorsed ObamaCare. They only turned against it when Obama forced the contraception mandate onto Catholic charities and Catholic schools. Why did Obama, after giving out over 1,000 waivers to ObamaCare, not give in on this one issue, and ensure the support of the Catholic Church?
“Women’s rights”, throughout the 1970s and 1980s was about equal pay for equal work. It was the reason behind the Equal Rights Amendment.
Unfortunately, somehow the Democrats have succeeded in convincing 57% of women “Women’s Rights” equals “Reproductive Rights”. At the same time, the Democrats succeeded in convincing the same audience a desire to allow religious organizations flexibility in their insurance programs was equal to banning contraception and forcing women to be barefoot and pregnant. Why?
I think I know the answer. The hard left hates the Catholic Church. They think is is an archaic institution ruled by old white guys. They had to punish it, but do it in a way so as to hide what you are doing. Enter Georgetown Law and Sandra Fluke.
Instead of an honest debate on if a religious institution should have flexibility in the insurance it provides (which most of the public would support), it was reframed as “Republicans want to take away your contraception.”
Look at the exit polls demographics. Look at how O got them to come out and vote again to save him with things so crappy for them under him.
Understanding is better than just beating your head saying “If cant be true, it just doesn't make sense”. Otherwise every 4 years can be like the last two.
Romney wasn't just appearing as a rich white male but also a very robotic one while O played the compassion card to all those different groups.
“I care about you unlike the other guy who only cares about rich guys like himself”
He was a gift to O. And ironically he was a liberal too.
Ted Cruz is on Cavuto (TX) is on Cavuto and he won that Senate seat with lots of Hispanic voters help.
He told Cavuto that Republicans need to try to communicate with Hispanics.
I must admit he looks like a great Palin pick in the R primary. We will see.
Forbes
George Soros net worth in 2008....9 billion.
2012 19 billion
” He told Cavuto that Republicans need to try to communicate with Hispanics.”
Just exactly how ?
You are saying he is the NEXT D candidate? That would be great.
Does the Government grant rights, in your view; such that they can be rescinded?
Tell them you see that things are bad for them under O and that he is just using them. Tell them how your policies will make their lives better. He said to talk jobs and the economy.
Cruz is Hispanic.
Interesting how his net worth more than doubled in 4 horrible years of recession, eh ?
Actually I think there is truth to that. I have long figured it won’t wake up people until there’s a true crisis: another 911, economic collapse. White libs think they can just keep moving away from their fellow constituencies, curl up in the conservative suburban womb. But sooner rather than later, it hits the fan. The voter demographics say much from yesterday. It is the PC Crowd vs the rest of us. They won this round but eventually TSHTF, and they start fighting amongst themselves.
So, did the Chic-Fil-A crowd stay home?
I didn't. I thought I saw the CFA turn out at my poll location and in numerous conservative postings/pics. Hmm.
That could be the main reason. But did they ask open ended questions in the exit polls, or give respondents a list of reasons to choose from?
It's possible that "O cares for me" really means that I heard my favorite group's name in Obama's list "Women, gays, blacks, hispanics, ..." And maybe the best remedy (whatever that is) for GOP or conservatives is the same for both "He cares" and "He likes my group."
Is this a point about how the rich did good under O, or a more specific point about George? Where does Soros live?
Obama would say to blacks, hispanics, wimmin : “See that is exactly my point. The Rich have made out great due to GOP policies while you have have suffered. That is why I oppose another tax cut for the wealthy”
And the 2010 senate minority Rs made it possible by winning on extending those tax cuts for two years till AFTER Os re-election.
Now if those rates went up right away end of 2010 then R+R could have said “See what raising taxes gets you?” If they go up now anyway the GOP in the congress will get the stupid prize.
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