White Voters

The Romney Hypocrisy: Bain, Job Creation Fallacies and the Working-Class White Vote

Edward Wyckoff Williams | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Think Progress, Working-Class, Job Creation, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Bain Capital, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Fox News, Jobs, Newt Gingrich, African Americans, Recession, Barack Obama, White Voters, Bv-Politics, Video, Black Voices News

Perhaps Mitt Romney insists on making the 2012 campaign a referendum on President Obama's record, in an effort to ignore his own. The stark contrast between Barack's legacy and Mitt's lies could not be more apparent.

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Why So Many Whites Vote Against Themselves

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2012

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Government spending and programs to many are tantamount to hand outs to undeserving blacks and the poor and that in turn equals money snatched from the pockets of hard working whites.

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Obama's Big Problems In The Deep South

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.12.2012

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Obama's problems in the Deep South aren't limited to suspicion over his religion. And the suspicion over his identity isn't limited to the South. ...

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Beck Speaks for the White Majority

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beck knows the political mood of the majority of white voters well. He's stoked it for months on his TV show, he did again at the Lincoln Mall, and he mocked Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement along the way.

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GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: "A Heaping Plate of Soul"

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama has helped inspire an historic batch of black Americans to run for Congress - against his own party. 32 black Republicans, a r...

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Why the Tea Party Movement Opposes a Man Who Cut Taxes On 95% of Tax Payers

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Neglected in all the fevered conversation around the Tea Party movement's meteoric rise is any useful reflection on what the cause and this figurehead stand for: white racial resentment.

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Minority Population Growing, Dispersing: Fewer Congressional Districts Are Predominantly White

The March of Diversity | Saturday, December 19, 2009 | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Hispanics providing the principal engine, the nation's minority population is not only increasing but also dispersing beyond the big cities where...

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The Tyranny of the Tantrum

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

What we're seeing from the health care town halls and what we've seen from the "birthers" is essentially what I call the Tyranny of the Tantrum, which many parents encounter during the "terrible twos."

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Mel Martinez and the Last Nail in the Republican Diversity Coffin

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martínez's move can been seen as another accomplished person of color flipping a metaphorical middle finger at all the Republicans have devolved into: The party of the "angry white voter."

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For The Modern GOP, It's A Return To The "White Voter Strategy"

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Republican party leaders so constrained by ideological blinders that none of their positions is likely to produce gains among non-white minoritie...

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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Surge Of New Voters and Obama Campaign Efforts Tipping Virginia

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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During the primaries Obama got trounced in southwestern Virginia. "Presence really matters," Gov. Kaine told Obama. "Go and show 'em you're really interested."

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Marriage Equality: A Cup Half Full

Gautam Dutta | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marriage should be sacred, not a political prop. We need to put another initiative on the ballot -- this time to undo Prop 8.

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White Voters and Obama

Jon Wiener | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Reagan won reelection in 1984, the electorate was 86 per cent white; by 2004, the white percentage had dropped to 77. That's one reason why an interracial coalition is likely to elect America's first black president today.

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Deer Hunting With Democrats

Nick Penniman | Posted 05.25.2011

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McCain is inarticulate about the economy, and the Republican brand is more tarnished than it has been in decades.

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Frank Rich: In Defense Of White Americans

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 05.25.2011

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IT seems like a century ago now, but it was only in 2005 that a National Journal poll of Beltway insiders predicted that George Allen, then a popular ...

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Jesse's Obama Hit -- A Blessing in Disguise

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama is a moderate centrist Democrat who has gotten to the threshold of snatching the White House by being everything that Jackson isn't.

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Interview With Brook Lundy, Co-Founder Of Someecards.com, Voting Advocate, And Fairly Decent Kisser

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brook Lundy is the co-founder and president of someecards.com, the wildly successful and acerbically hilarious online greeting card service.

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Stop Whining, Get Busy

Karen Russell | Posted 05.25.2011

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The democrats need to stop whining about Senator Obama, get off our butts and help him win. Enough with the all the hand wringing, with all the "what ...

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Howard Zinn's Advice to Obama

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zinn: I think he has to talk more about class issues -- more about how this government and McCain as part of it, and has been funneling all the wealth of this country into the rich.

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Is Biden Ready For The Big Game?

Tom Douglas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tim Kaine seemed like a no-brainer, but Obama is the Jordan on this team. He needs role players. It remains to be seen whether Biden is more like a Luc Longley or a Steve Kerr.

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Vote for Obama Because He's Black

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Here's the thing - people are going to vote against Obama because he's black. This is the country we live in. And I know, he's only half black, yadda...

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McCain's Problem with White Voters

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.

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The Real Problem with the New York Times Article on Racial Divide

David Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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What is truly amazing at this point in U.S. history is that white voters now view a black candidate about as positively as a white candidate on most issues, and in some cases much more positively.

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