Re: [RC] The White Vote 2012

[David R. Block]

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We were dutifully informed by the Democratic Operatives with bylines (reporters, so-called journalists) while living in Louisiana that Whites voting for the white candidate at even 55 % was "racist," but they made damn sure to stay quiet concerning the 95 % black vote for black candidates. Until everything came out in the late 80s under Republican Governor David Treen who published election results and all of their gory details. Then we didn't much care what the Democratic Media Complex called it. The net results were that David Duke ran against incumbent Senator J. Bennett Johnston in 1990 and got 45 % of the vote. That showing encouraged Duke to go for the Governor's office in 1991, which he lost, but still with 40 % of the vote. The people who voted for Duke didn't much care how the press saw it. I'm sure that if Romney is elected we will suddenly hear about the homeless again. Not because they suddenly became homeless after the defeat of Obama or did not exist under a Democratic administration (but it sure seems that way), but because they are homeless under a Republican. Same was done under Reagan and Bush Sr and Bush Jr. The Mainstream media: Largest purveyor of Bullshit since Bevo (the Longhorn Mascot).  David   "The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government.  Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors,  but government."--Neal Boortz On 10/20/2012 10:56 AM, bil...@aol.com wrote:   Among the reasons for the poll results in the following article is the fact of black solidarity in support of Obama.   Yes, white resentment is not universal, but it would be foolish to pretend it doesn't exist. This goes beyond such factors as mere economics. It is motivated by such things as seeing American culture becoming increasingly Islamified,  something that may seem "natural" among various black populations, but that is regarded as almost wholly alien to dominant white culture.   Not that most voters can articulate these kinds of concerns. Not when the mass media skews the debate and shapes public perceptions as much as it does due to TV viewing habits  --30 hours per person on average.  But occasional comments from people you know should give the game away.   And then there is monolithic black voting. It is pure chauvinism, blackness is decisive, not governance or judgement.  White people have noticed what Charles Krauthammer has called Obama's "10 point golf handicap." He starts the election with 10 % of the vote locked up. The effect is more and more whites saying, in effect, "O yeah, well if they can vote black interests in a bloc, so can white people."   All of this and BHO's mediocre  --or worse-- performance in governing, and you get 2 out of 3 white people, or no worse than about 57 - 43 voting Republican.  Uh, that's huge.   Billy   ================================================       W Post Romney is winning the white vote — by a lot Posted by Aaron Blake on October 18, 2012 Political analysts (including The Fix) spend a good bit of time these days talking about important voter groups — Latino voters and female voters, in particular. But all of the focus on these groups has obfuscated one fact: Mitt Romney is performing very, very well among white voters. And in fact, most recent polls show him winning the white vote by more than any GOP presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan. Some recent national polls have shown Romney losing the Latino vote by upwards of 40 or 50 points – a result that, if it came to pass, would significantly hurt the GOP’s chances of winning the White House, given the rapid growth in the Latino population. But even if Romney sustains a huge loss on the Latino vote, he could very well offset that (and much more) by out-performing his Republican predecessors when it comes to white voters, which are still about seven times as much of the electorate as Latinos. Indeed, it’s not unreasonable to think that Romney could win 60 percent or more of white voters this year. The most recent national polls from four pollsters — Gallup, Monmouth University, Fox News and the Pew Research Center — all show Romney winning the white vote by more than 20 points. That’s something no GOP presidential candidate has done since Reagan’s landslide 1984 reelection win. (The most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, we should note, shows him winning whites by just 11 percent.) In 2008, white voters made up nearly three-fourths of the vote, while Latinos comprised 9 percent. Let’s say that, in the election on Nov. 6, there is a surge in the Latino vote (up to 11 percent of the electorate) and a coinciding drop in the white vote (down to 72 percent). Given how small the Latino vote remains, the difference between losing it by 36 points — as John McCain did in 2008 — and losing it by 45 points — a worst-case scenario for Romney — amounts to about a 1 percent overall shift in the national race. Meanwhile, if Romney won the white vote by 22 percent — a 10-point improvement over McCain — that would gain him 7 percent of the national vote over McCain and essentially even out the national popular vote. None of this is to say, of course, that the Latino vote isn’t important. It’s a fast-growing part of the electorate and one that Republicans are going to have to start competing better for in the very near future — and preferably, for them, this year. And as the Latino vote grows, the white vote becomes less and less of the electorate. But as far as the 2012 election goes, Romney’s strength among white voters could very well offset his and the Republican Party’s continued struggles among minorities, and be good enough to win Romney the presidency. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org