Averroës Nix
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« on: November 14, 2012, 10:35:20 AM » |
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Media commentary has really glossed over the extent to which this regional problem. Obama won 46% of the white vote outside of the South and Appalachia. That's not great, but it's hardly catastrophic. He did fine among white voters in the Northeast, the Midwest, and most of the West.
Ignoring this misses a big part of the story about polarization in US voting patterns. Their racking up >70-80% of the Southern and Appalachian white vote explains, to a large extent, the apparent Republican electoral college disadvantage.
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