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The conditions are converging for another presidential election that will sharply divide the country along racial lines, with troubling implications no matter which side prevails.

From one direction, the Republican presidential primaries have witnessed an epic failure by the GOP contenders to attract and engage minority voters. White voters, especially older ones, are routinely casting 90 percent or more of the votes in GOP contests this year, at least as high a proportion as in 2008.

Simultaneously, despite some recent gains, President Obama continues to struggle among white voters, especially the white working class. In 2008, he became the first presidential nominee ever to lose white voters by double digits and still win the White House. In 2012, as minorities loom larger in the vote, Obama could lose whites even more lopsidedly and still win reelection.

As these trends intensify, the election could reinforce the hardening re-racialization of American politics. Republicans today rely on a preponderantly white coalition centered on older and blue-collar voters, many of whom express great unease not only about activist government but also about the demographic changes swelling the minority population. Democrats depend on a coalition of minorities and of white voters (particularly those with college degrees) who are the most comfortable with government activism and the propulsive demographic transformation.

This year’s tumultuous Republican presidential race has underscored the dominance of whites, especially older white voters, in the GOP. After Tuesday’s contests in Alabama and Mississippi, exit polls have been conducted in 16 states that have held Republican primaries or caucuses. In all but two, whites cast at least 90 percent of the ballots. Indeed, whites delivered at least 94 percent of the votes in all but five GOP contests this year. Whites represented only 74 percent of all voters in the 2008 general election.

Among those 16 states, only Michigan has seen its minority vote share increase by more than a trace (to 8 percent, from 4 percent in 2008). Whites are dominating the GOP electorate even in rapidly diversifying states. In Nevada, whites were just 69 percent of all voters in the 2008 general election, but they cast 90 percent of the votes in last month’s Republican caucus. Similar gaps are evident in GOP primaries from Georgia, Mississippi, and Virginia, to Arizona, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

This year’s Republican electorate shades not only white but also gray. In 12 of the 16 states where exit polls have been conducted, voters over 50 cast at least 60 percent of the GOP primary votes; in the other four, they represented at least 55 percent of the vote. Just 43 percent of 2008 general-election voters were that old. Even compared with the 2008 GOP primaries, the gray tint is much more pronounced.

All of this flags near- and long-term challenges for the Republican Party. The problem this fall will be to attract minority (and younger) voters who are uninspired, or even alienated, by the primaries. As GOP front-runner Mitt Romney has hurtled to the right on immigration, recent surveys have shown Obama’s support against him matching, or exceeding, the president’s 67 percent showing among Hispanics in 2008. Hispanic Republicans such as Jennifer Korn, executive director of the Hispanic Leadership Network, say that if Romney wins the nomination, he will need to vastly expand his outreach “to explain his [immigration] position.” But outreach may go only so far for a candidate who touts “self-deportation” for illegal immigrants.

As population trends continue, the electoral math will grow more daunting for Republicans. If the GOP allows Democrats to continue winning four-fifths of all minority voters—as Obama did in 2008—Republicans will need to attract an implausibly high percentage of whites to win presidential elections. The conundrum is that the party’s current reliance on the most conservative whites constrains its ability to embrace policies attractive to minorities, as the harsh primary debate on immigration demonstrates.

Today, however, the GOP’s white strength can still overcome its minority weakness. Obama could win reelection with backing from only about 39 percent of whites if he duplicates his 2008 showing among minorities (and if their vote share rises slightly). But Democrats couldn’t muster even that much white support during the 2010 Republican congressional landslide. And Obama has no guarantee of crossing that bar this fall. In the Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll released on Friday, his approval rating among whites reached just 41 percent, a meager level that he has exceeded only once in the poll since October 2009.

These contrasting racial patterns signal another tough election in November. Equally important, they show how closely the ideological divisions between the parties track racial lines, with minorities more open than most whites to an activist role for Washington in promoting opportunity and providing a safety net. That divergence is a formula for social tension and polarized debate. But it’s the future that appears increasingly likely as Obama marshals a coalition powered at its core by the diversity reshaping American life, and his Republican rivals compete for an electorate that remains almost entirely untouched by it.

This article appeared in the Saturday, March 17, 2012 edition of National Journal.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/white-like-me-20120315
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

i do an activity i call 'spot the brotha' whenever there's a gop pres debate or rally for one of the candidates.

you'd be surprised how many times i end up with '0' after looking at the crowd. and the polls you see that show the president with a slight lead over various gop nominees doesn't include people of color. those are primarily white folks they're polling. so when u include all people of color with the white folks who are already planning to back the president, i just don't see how any of the gop nominees can win
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

^^^^I do that too.

You notice at Newt's speech after he lost Al and Miss, he had a Black guy standing right behind him. Him, a White girl, a White dude and an Asian guy. I'm pretty sure that was the staff of the hotel or whereever he was.
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

^^^^I do that too.

You notice at Newt's speech after he lost Al and Miss, he had a Black guy standing right behind him. Him, a White girl, a White dude and an Asian guy. I'm pretty sure that was the staff of the hotel or whereever he was.

i saw that dude. i was wondering if he was paid to be there. the ONLY black person on the stage amongst that entire crowd and he just HAPPENED to be directly in front of the camera, right over newt's left shoulder in the first row :rolleyes:
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

^^^^I do that too.

You notice at Newt's speech after he lost Al and Miss, he had a Black guy standing right behind him. Him, a White girl, a White dude and an Asian guy. I'm pretty sure that was the staff of the hotel or whereever he was.
maaaaaan i wanted to choke that damn nigga

y'all we gotta VOTE. this shit is NOT guaranteed and please believe there will be fuckery.

VOTE gotdammit.
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

OK and this is strange because....

...or perhaps you can provide us with a listing of the positives the republicans have instituted to help non-whites over the last 20 years or so.

Anything as to why we should be lined up voting in the GOP elections.
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

maaaaaan i wanted to choke that damn nigga

y'all we gotta VOTE. this shit is NOT guaranteed and please believe there will be fuckery.

VOTE gotdammit.

Your vote doesn't count. Only the electoral college's votes count.
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

Your vote doesn't count. Only the electoral college's votes count.

This is not true.

The electors cast their votes for the candidate who has received the most votes. Some states have laws that require electors to vote for the candidate that won the popular vote, while other electors are bound by pledges to a specific political party.

However there has been times when electors have voted contrary to the people's decision, and there is no federal law or Constitutional provision against it.

That said you still need to vote!
 
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Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

This is not true.

The electors cast their votes for the candidate who has received the most votes. Some states have laws that require electors to vote for the candidate that won the popular vote, while other electors are bound by pledges to a specific political party.

However there has been times when electors have voted contrary to the people's decision, and there is no federal law or Constitutional provision against it.

That said you still need to vote!

That's like sayin "She said she couldn't get pregnant, so I ain't gonna use no rubber"

When the PEOPLE start electing the president directly I'll take this bullshit seriously. In the mean time I do hope Obama wins again.
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

That's like sayin "She said she couldn't get pregnant, so I ain't gonna use no rubber"

When the PEOPLE start electing the president directly I'll take this bullshit seriously. In the mean time I do hope Obama wins again.

:confused:


your 'logic' is fucking flawed...so yeah please don't vote ...too much a a dumbass and may not be able to fill out the ballot correctly anyway
 
Re: White Like Me - Almost all of the people voting in GOP presidential primaries are

And trust me they like it that way.....

its crazy that there are enough white people to completely fill an entire political party

and about 60% of whites are Republican.....

6 of 10 voted for McCain......
 
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