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Blacks, Latinos stick with shrinking Democratic base
Los Angeles Times ^ | 11/4/2010 | Kathleen Hennessy

Posted on 11/04/2010 7:11:48 PM PDT by Saije

Democrats searching for good news amid the rubble of Tuesday's midterm election results can look to Latinos and African Americans, two groups of voters that stayed with the party in large numbers.

But that, in a sense, is like taking comfort in that fact that as your house is falling down around you, it isn't also on fire.

The Democratic Party was overwhelmingly rejected by whites, independents and seniors. Perhaps most troubling to Democrats was that increasing numbers of women also turned toward the Republican Party.

Young voters, so crucial to President Obama's historic victories two years ago, showed up in lower numbers Tuesday, and many more voted Republican than before.

To make matters worse, while black and Latino voters remained relatively loyal to the Democratic Party, they voted in far fewer numbers than in 2008. And even in those groups, 3% to 5% defected from Democrats to Republicans.

Geographically, Democrats were largely pushed out of states where the party believed it had made lasting inroads, such as Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. The result is a national electoral map that more closely resembles that of the early 2000s, with the Democrats by and large confined to the East and West coasts, with the GOP dominating the heartland and the South.

All in all, such a stunning whiplash of a reversal from two years ago suggests that neither party can claim to have a hold on the American electorate...

The Democratic erosion was perhaps most accentuated by the flight of women, who were among the party's most enthusiastic supporters in 2006 and 2008. According to exit poll data, women essentially split their votes evenly between Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday. The last time that happened was in 2002.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hispanics; minority; obama; women
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To: BooBoo1000
If the Dimocrats and minorities are fading, how in hell did Harry Reid get reelected????

Massive electronic vote fraud.

Watch, it will come out soon.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

21 posted on 11/04/2010 8:21:07 PM PDT by The Comedian (I really missed you. Next time, I'll adjust for windage.)
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To: The Comedian

The Democrats are pushed back to their core base: affluent professionals, gays and lesbians, feminists, blacks and latinos. Unfortunately, its not enough to build a majority coalition. Identity politics sums up the essence of the party’s present and future problem.


22 posted on 11/04/2010 8:36:21 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: BobL

“If the Reps can pick up a sizable chunk of Hispanic votes (40% or more), they are effectively neutralized as a voting block”

Fearless prediction:

This won’t happen in your lifetime. The Republicans will be lucky to see 20-25% of “the Hispanic vote”, if that much.

For EVERY Hispanic vote the Pubbies pick up, expect two or three more to go to the ‘rats.

Rubio will have as much success gaining respect among Hispanics as Clarence Thomas had with blacks.

I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong.
But I don’t expect to be.


23 posted on 11/04/2010 8:42:11 PM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: goldstategop
The Democrats are pushed back to their core base: affluent professionals, gays and lesbians, feminists, blacks and latinos.

Their core constituency has always been the possessed, the insane, the dead, and the imaginary.

Blacks, perverts, illegals, and pedophiles are just drawn into the coalition with promises of free food and museums featuring crucifixes submerged in urine.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

24 posted on 11/04/2010 8:45:36 PM PDT by The Comedian (I really missed you. Next time, I'll adjust for windage.)
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For some people politics is mostly about “wheres mine”? Formerly thriving cities—Detroit, anyone?— have been destroyed when subcultures of dependency, crime, and family chaos came to dominate. Culture matters more than politics. The conscious decision of politicians too pen our borders to hordes of functional illiterates from south of the border is a criminal act. The conscious decision of one of our political parties to exploit and maintain in bondage the black urban underclass is an unpatriotic act.


25 posted on 11/04/2010 9:38:57 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Saije

“The only surprise is that anyone’s surprised.”

But.. but... La Raza’s puta Karl Rove promised us that latinos are conservatives!


26 posted on 11/04/2010 10:23:18 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: onevoter

“Expect Dems to do everything in their power to make illegals into “legal” before the next election”

Why? Thousands of illegals vote in California already. Some cross over from Mexico just to vote.


27 posted on 11/04/2010 10:25:01 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Marco Rubio is Cuban, and Cubans have nothing in common with Mexican illegals other than a mother tongue.

Mexicans do not consider Cubans to be part of La Raza despite the illusion of silly gringos who think that all latinos are one happy family.


28 posted on 11/04/2010 10:32:29 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: Grumplestiltskin

Are there any countries remotely to the right south of America? Mexico’s main parties are left and insane left to my knowledge...seems like a voting bloc that’s not ready for the big-leagues...


29 posted on 11/04/2010 11:29:26 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: Pelham
I'm quite aware of Marco Rubio's Cuban heritage. And I am cognizant of the fact that there is a vast difference in perception among the various Hispanic groups. However, on FOX yesterday, there was a discussion about Rubio being the democrats' worst nightmare, based on the fact that he is Hispanic and grew up in humble beginnings yet, through hard work and discipline, has become a success. Whether that would translate into his getting more Hispanic votes in a general election is probable, although to what extent I could not say. Rubio does shatter the Hispanic stereotype the same way Clarence Thomas shattered the Black one. The latter, of course, has not translated into any republican votes from Blacks, and you may be correct that the former may not do so from Hispanics. We can only hope.

Mexicans do not consider Cubans to be part of La Raza despite the illusion of silly gringos who think that all latinos are one happy family.

Very true. I have a very close friend who was born in Argentina over 60 years ago. He emigrated here in his twenties, and became a successful plastic surgeon. He told me that, despite his success, when he walks through the hospital, the gringo docs still consider him a "Puerto Rican."

30 posted on 11/05/2010 5:20:56 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If not for the double standard, liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Saije

The real “base” of the Democratic Party is in fact rather small. Its key components consist of the very poor, union members, government employees, educators, and the ultra-rich liberal elite. In each case, the party’s key supporters believe that government should be responsible to either take care of them, or to ensure that everyone is taken care of.

Michael Moore said that Democrats needed to stick with ... the poor segments of society who are entirely dependent on government munificence and the rich liberal elite who can afford to ignore the excesses of Big Government.

And large, black, lesbian Donna Brazile, Gore 2000 campaign manager, has said the pillars of the Democratic Party were African Americans, organized labor, women and homosexuals.

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/05/apocalypse-now-3/


31 posted on 11/05/2010 7:53:07 AM PDT by flowerplough (Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
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To: Rick_Michael

The latin countries to our south have a predominately Catholic culture with a large percentage of peasant and native stock in their population. These are greatly stratified societies without the middle class that characterizes the white Anglo Saxon Protestant culture of British North America that grew into the United States. Our political societies are too dissimilar to make easy comparisons. And trying to force a merger between the US and these societies via unrestricted immigration is a fool’s dream that only our elites could want, since they would be largely insulated from the ensuing chaos.


32 posted on 11/05/2010 8:01:42 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: Godwin1

” Culture matters more than politics. The conscious decision of politicians to open our borders to hordes of functional illiterates from south of the border is a criminal act.”

Worth repeating, and repeating often.


33 posted on 11/05/2010 8:03:14 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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