White Flight From The Democrats

[EV_Ares]

President Obama’s path to a second term may rely on states shaped by the same social forces he embodies.
By Ronald Brownstein
Friday, January 7, 2011 | 6:05 a.m.

By any standard, white voters’ rejection of Democrats in November’s elections was daunting and even historic.

Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the National Election Poll exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Not even in Republicans’ 1994 congressional landslide did they win that high a percentage of the white vote.

Moreover, those results may understate the extent of the white flight from the Democratic Party, according to a National Journal analysis of previously unpublished exit-poll data provided by Edison Research.

The new data show that white voters not only strongly preferred Republican House and Senate candidates but also registered deep disappointment with President Obama’s performance, hostility toward the cornerstones of the current Democratic agenda, and widespread skepticism about the expansive role for Washington embedded in the party’s priorities. On each of those questions, minority voters expressed almost exactly the opposite view from whites.

Much can change in two years—entire articel @ link: http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/in-2012-obama-may-need-a-new-coalition-20110105?page=1

[underpants]

1. Nationwide white males vote 60-40 Repub. In the South it is 61-39. These are not new results

[w8liftinglady]

2. sigh.in my district it is 80-20.... nothing new here-move on.

[emulatorloo]

5. Texas, correct?

Something bad has happened to the state of my birth.

[TxVietVet]

13. In Texas, even the radio preachers carry on the conservanazi propaganda

I'm in the Houston area and it is either corporate owned and they play crap or it's conservanazi bu$hit.

[FLPanhandle]

3. Race was a factor in 2008; will be again in 2012

Some whites won't vote for him because he is black.
Some blacks will vote for him because he is black.

Just a fact.

[emilyg]

6. Some whites who voted for him before - won't.

[okieinpain]

4. I would be interested in seeing the voting totals. if the number

of voters were higher for the mid-terms then this would something to worry about. but if it was a below average total turn out it just means the typical republican voted and no one else did.

that's what basically happened in oklahoma, i believe the vote turnout was put at 48% of the registered voters and that was called low for a mid-term with a Governor race at the top of the list.

[zbdent]

7. So, they're actually admitting that their hatred of Obama is based on

racism?

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8. Who are "they?"

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9. I think this is kind of bullshit. Repub voters were far more motivated last year then Dem voters.

Doesn't mean whites are fleeing the Dem party. Don't see how that conclusion can be drawn from last year's election results given the enthusiasm gap.

[EV_Ares]

10. Agree, I think it is more a lack of enthusiasm than white voters fleeing. Remember the

enthusiasm of young voters, not enthusiastic during midterms, same as many others disillusioned with Obama on many of his policies. All of these will be back when times and things are different. Also, look at the Independents who went republican during midterms. They will also be back when given a reason.

Agree with you, this isn't fleeing it is typical media bs.

[sadbear]

11. Will any non-whites vote republican?

Looks like a wash to me.

[treestar]

12. It was a midterm

More people turn out in presidential years.

President Obama never did get the majority of whites. He'll get enough of them to win, however.