1.0 link 76545 <![CDATA[HuffPost Forum: Should The Dems Love White Guys, Or Dump Them?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/12/huffpost-forum-should-the_n_76545.html One of the longer-running and more contentious strategic debates among Democrats and liberals involves the importance of white men -- especially white working- and middle-class men -- to the building of a majority coalition.

Formerly a mainstay of the pre-1960s Roosevelt coalition, these voters have since become a key constituency for the Republican Party.

First, in the 1980 election, white men provided the votes essential for Reagan's victory and the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. Their defection from the Democratic Party...

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