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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 08:54 AM Aug 2013

Is demographics destiny in presidential elections?

I don't want to get too cocky but I don't see how a Republicant can win when his or her Democratic opponent starts with more than seventy percent of the non white vote. It's almost to a point, that with a robust minority turnout, the Democratic presidential candidate can win with approximately one out of three white voters.

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