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GOP’s Biggest 2016 Problem: Clinton’s Numbers Among White Voters
Daily Beast ^ | 06.09.14 | Lloyd Green

Posted on 06/20/2014 7:54:40 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal

Hillary Clinton’s strength among white voters is the key to 2016—and it spells nearly certain defeat and disaster for Republicans.

Culture will likely shape the 2016 presidential elections, and this is bad news for the Republican Party. Recent polls show Hillary Clinton running well among white voters overall, showing real strength among white non-evangelical Protestants, and running competitively among white Catholics. Trailing only among evangelicals, Clinton is poised to move beyond the upstairs-downstairs coalition that brought Barack Obama to the White House, and that continues to characterize his policies and presidency to this day.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; hilary; piaps; voters; white
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To: Viennacon

Many white people, especially in the key Midwest states, lack the knowledge NOT to vote for HRC.


21 posted on 06/20/2014 8:37:22 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: boycott

For some reason, this picture will thrill the American people.


22 posted on 06/20/2014 8:38:31 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: tumblindice

ROFL


23 posted on 06/20/2014 8:39:09 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (...staying home isn't an option.)
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To: tumblindice

ROFL


24 posted on 06/20/2014 8:39:09 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (...staying home isn't an option.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

It will be women who think this is a history making. opportunity to get a woman in the White House. It is simple as that.


25 posted on 06/20/2014 8:42:34 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I wouldn’t worry too much about this kind of thing, regardless of name recognition and such at this point, white voters are the portion of the electorate most likely to actually watch the primaries and hear the arguments, and many of them will shift away from Hillary as the campaigns set to work and the facts start becoming more known.

In the end, Hillary won’t be winning the white vote, unless we do something really stupid, something so stupid that it is romneyesque.


26 posted on 06/20/2014 8:44:57 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

When you have calves that could possibly make an elephant blush, pants suits may not be a bad idea.


27 posted on 06/20/2014 8:47:56 PM PDT by boycott
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To: tumblindice

That is priceless. It’s going viral.


28 posted on 06/20/2014 8:47:59 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: chris37

I am sure your mom is thrilled with your view point


29 posted on 06/20/2014 9:13:48 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Are you?

Because she couldn’t agree with me more if she tried.

Hate top break it to you, but our people have CEASED TO IMPRESS.


30 posted on 06/20/2014 9:29:12 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Why in the “Obama” would any Woman in America vote for the Queen of Benghazi?


31 posted on 06/20/2014 9:30:00 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: doc1019

And we can “ain’t buy it” all the way to yet another WH defeat. Our numbers shrink as theirs grow. Every single poll makes it clear Clinton will win in a walk away. At the moment, we have no upside. But if we just sit around and deny the sun is shining then just let’s all turn off the cpu and just wait til the comet hits because it is truly all over.


32 posted on 06/20/2014 9:30:29 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Gee, I thought the key to winning a presidential election was the non-white vote.


33 posted on 06/20/2014 9:33:36 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: RIghtwardHo
Psy ops works.

Every single poll makes it clear Clinton will win in a walk away

Psy ops in action.

Don't believe this BS and we will survive.

34 posted on 06/20/2014 9:45:51 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: chris37

So you are frightened by most American women?


35 posted on 06/20/2014 9:46:10 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: ObamahatesPACoal; All

As I always pointed out to my (former) Leftist friends, EVERY WOMAN to accuse Bill Clinton of rape, groping, molesting, etc., was a DEMOCRAT. They don’t care. All they are interested in is the power.


36 posted on 06/20/2014 9:50:28 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

It’s 2014. There’s no opponent. This is meaningless even if Hillary is the most likely winner. Way too early to prognosticate anything


37 posted on 06/20/2014 10:12:31 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: originalbuckeye

If the lamestream media pushes the beast, this idiocracy will elect it.

Now shaddup and drink your brawndo.


38 posted on 06/20/2014 10:12:38 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
I'm noways 'tirared'...
Ready for my closeup, voters...

39 posted on 06/20/2014 10:30:10 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (DEFUND the GOPe it wants our money, our votes, but NOT our principles/values/beliefs)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

“Recent polls show Hillary Clinton running well among white voters overall...”

Maybe single white women. Historically, married white women & white men vote Republican. By race, 59% of whites voted for Romney in 2012. White men voted for Romney at 62%.

” In 2004, Bush got fifty-five per cent of the white female vote, and Kerry got forty-four per cent—a “reverse gender gap” (one working in the G.O.P.’s favor) of eleven points. In 2008, McCain got fifty-three per cent of the white female vote, and Obama got forty-six per cent—a gap of seven points. Compared to four years earlier, the reverse gender gap in this demographic had decreased by four points, indicating that the Democrats were making progress in attracting the votes of white women. But this year, that trend turned around again. Far from narrowing further, the reverse gender gap among white women widened to fourteen points. Romney got fifty-six per cent of the white female vote; Obama got just forty-two per cent.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/11/why-white-women-voted-for-romney.html

From the same link, why did Obama win in 2012?

“Ninety-six per cent of black women voted for Obama; seventy-six per cent of Hispanic women voted for him; and so did sixty-six per cent of women of other races, including Asians.”

The married divide worked this way:

“Nearly a quarter of the voters in Tuesday’s election were unmarried women – and Obama captured more than two-thirds of their votes, 67%, according to research...Mitt Romney actually did better than Obama among married women, outperforming the president by seven points.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/09/single-women-voted-favour-obama

Sorry, but I’m not buying the idea that Hillary is attractive to white women voters.


40 posted on 06/20/2014 10:33:01 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Left wing. Right wing. One buzzard.)
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