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Black Voter Surge Spells Even More Woe for the GOP

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The black vote is and will remain a foundation of the Democratic Party in key states. And the increased number of black voters and their willingness to go to the polls poses a mortal threat to break the GOP's grip in the South. This can only add to the GOP's woes.

Data Reveals Obama Held the White Vote

Inimai Chettiar | Posted 01.19.2013 | Politics
Inimai Chettiar

Obama's 39 percent is the same as the share Clinton won in 1992. Obama's share exceeded that earned by Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter (1980), and George McGovern. What skewed the popular misinterpretation of the statistics is the increase in the number of voters of color.

WATCH: Maher Issues Stern Warning To White People

Posted 11.11.2012 | Comedy

One of the major takeaways from this election was watching, in real time, the Republican party learn that if they want to stay relevant, they simply m...

WATCH: Chris Rock's Message For White Voters

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 01.03.2013 | Comedy

With election day nearly upon us, Brooklyn native Chris Rock wanted to take an opportunity to address white voters while Jimmy Kimmel is still in town...

The Undecideds: Faking Ain't Easy

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 12.25.2012 | Politics
Charles D. Ellison

As we're now in the final stretch of political Armageddon -- judging from the intensity and hype of most folks finally paying attention -- there's that ongoing discussion about the "undecideds."

Romney Clings to Gun and Bible Toters

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.17.2012 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

No Democrat will dare risk uttering a peep about tougher gun control laws. This includes President Obama. Both parties know that the gun control issue is a minefield and a surefire loser for a candidate.

Why Romney and Ryan Are Going Down

Robert Reich | Posted 09.16.2012 | Politics
Robert Reich

Romney, Ryan, and the GOP don't seem to know how to satisfy their middle-aged white male base without at the same time turning off everyone who's not white, male, straight, or middle-aged. Unfortunately for Romney and Ryan, the people they're turning off are the majority.

Can Romney Win With Just White Votes?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.04.2012 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The drop-off does not take into account the blatant and sneaky voter suppression tactics that GOP governors and GOP state legislators have worked feverishly to put in place to further damp down the black and Hispanic vote.

As Demographics Change, An End To The Solid South

AP | BILL BARROW | Posted 08.20.2012 | Black Voices

ATLANTA -- The "Solid South" was a political fact, benefiting Democrats for generations and then Republicans, with Bible Belt and racial politics ruli...

Romney's Southern Strategy Gambit

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.15.2012 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Ryan will not only fatten the percentage of conservative voters for Romney, it will fatten their numbers as well. This is not speculation. He's already bumped up the Romney percentage in some polls by a notch. Romney had badly slipped in those polls before the Ryan pick.

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

Edward Wyckoff Williams | Posted 07.18.2012 | Black Voices
Edward Wyckoff Williams

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.

Why So Many Whites Vote Against Themselves

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2012 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

Obama's Big Problems In The Deep South

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.12.2012 | Black Voices

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. ...

Beck Speaks for the White Majority

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

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

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Richard M. Benjamin

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...

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

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Richard M. Benjamin

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.

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

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

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

The Tyranny of the Tantrum

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Terrance Heath

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."

Mel Martinez and the Last Nail in the Republican Diversity Coffin

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
John Ridley

MartĆ­nez'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."

Thomas B. Edsall

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

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

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Jenkins

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

The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Jenkins

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.

Surge Of New Voters and Obama Campaign Efforts Tipping Virginia

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Diane Tucker

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

Marriage Equality: A Cup Half Full

Gautam Dutta | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gautam Dutta

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

White Voters and Obama

Jon Wiener | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Jon Wiener

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.