Washington Post: Romney with a historic Reaganesque lead with white voters.

[Ty440]

"The most recent national polls from four pollsters — Gallup, Monmouth University, Fox News and the Pew Research Center — all show Romney winning the white vote by more than 20 points. That’s something no GOP presidential candidate has done since Reagan’s landslide 1984 reelection win."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/18/mitt-romney-is-winning-the-white-vote-by-a-lot/

Obama doing worse than any democratic candidate since Walter Mondale,and yet i am still confident of an Obama victory.

If he's ahead with white voters that  much, that means Romney is probably getting white Kerry voters to vote for him. I believe Obama may lose the popular vote by a hair, and still take the EC.

What is the reaction if Obama doesn't break 40% but still wins the presidency? I never thought the election would be so racially  polarized.

[Ty440]

I know Obebo has something to say about this.

[Oakvale]

Why are white people so terrible?

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Why can Obama have a 95-0 lead with black voters and this is not questioned but a 20 point lead with white voters is called racism... I recognize no one has said this yet but I am pre-empting...

[Oakvale]

Why can Obama have a 95-0 lead with black voters and this is not questioned but a 20 point lead with white voters is called racism... I recognize no one has said this yet but I am pre-empting...

Pretty much any Democrat would have a 95-0 lead with black voters at this point - Kerry led 89 - 10 or something.

[Yank2133]

Romney needs over 60% of white voters if he wants to win.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Romney is like Reagan, at least in the sense that he has a lot of trouble remembering things.

[Holmes]

Romney is like Reagan, at least in the sense that he has a lot of trouble remembering things.

Edgy.

[Ty440]

Why can Obama have a 95-0 lead with black voters and this is not questioned but a 20 point lead with white voters is called racism... I recognize no one has said this yet but I am pre-empting...

Pretty much any Democrat would have a 95-0 lead with black voters at this point - Kerry led 89 - 10 or something.

Gore got like 91 or 92

[Likely Voter]

If white vote breaks down to 60/40 and non-white turnout stays same as 2008, then Romney still loses. Their strategy has been to get 61% of whites. Of course if they are wrong and Team Obama is right about non-white turnout going up, then Romney needs more than 61% of whites. 

Regardless this will be the most racially polarized election ever

[Dumbo]

If someone has a white mother and a black father or a black mother and
a white father: is this person counted as a "white" voter or a "black" voter?

[old timey villain]

If Obama winds up with, say, 41% of the white vote, which is likely, then he still wins fairly comfortably. Besides, most of the erosion of white support is likely coming from states we know he won't win anyway, like West Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri and other southern states.

[Ty440]

If someone has a white mother and a black father or a black mother and
a white father: is this person counted as a "white" voter or a "black" voter?

Probably  black or "other". Depends on how the person identifies.

[Ty440]

If Obama winds up with, say, 41% of the white vote, which is likely, then he still wins fairly comfortably. Besides, most of the erosion of white support is likely coming from states we know he won't win anyway, like West Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri and other southern states.

I believe Romney is likely to do better than McCain throughout the Northeast, the polling confirms this. But he probably won't flip a single state in the NE, save for maybe N.H.

[dirks]

Why are white people so terrible?

why can Obama behead a kitten on TV and still receive 98% of the black vote?

it cuts both ways

[BM]

Luckily the white majority in America is rapidly decreasing. Europe will soon be the only place in the world with large white majorities, and that's a socialist hell to white supremacist Republicans so they can't even flee there! Finally they'll feel the misery they've inflicted on others for generations.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Luckily the white majority in America is rapidly decreasing. Europe will soon be the only place in the world with large white majorities, and that's a socialist hell to white supremacist Republicans so they can't even flee there! Finally they'll feel the misery they've inflicted on others for generations.

I don't believe any white person younger then yours truly (and I had nothing to do with it) had a thing to do with colonization...

[milhouse24]

Luckily the white majority in America is rapidly decreasing. Europe will soon be the only place in the world with large white majorities, and that's a socialist hell to white supremacist Republicans so they can't even flee there! Finally they'll feel the misery they've inflicted on others for generations.

I think there is still a white majority in Israel.  But hopefully the Muslims will overcome the white colonialism and takeover just like they are taking over France.

A lot of the White Racists in America are the Irish Catholic and Italian Catholic working class voters that Joe Biden is supposedly supposed to appeal to.  I would be interested in looking at the white Catholic vote percentage for Romney.

[Ty440]

Luckily the white majority in America is rapidly decreasing. Europe will soon be the only place in the world with large white majorities, and that's a socialist hell to white supremacist Republicans so they can't even flee there! Finally they'll feel the misery they've inflicted on others for generations.

Why advocate a race war? That doesn't serve the country any good. Let's put the past behind us and move forward as one.

[BM]

You don't have to look far to realize conservative white people don't care about embracing or working with any other ethnic group to move forward. One just depicted minorities as barbaric savages with bones in their noses in this very thread!

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

That isn't a 20 point lead.

[BM]

Ah yes keep the racist posts coming!

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

Oh you tricky tricky crackers

[AndrewTX]

People, watch it or I'm locking it. You know who you are.

[rob in cal]

Sorry, can't resist jumping in here, but in terms of the vanishing white majority in the US, anyone have any guesses as to how this came about?  Hint, white politicians from both parties starting in the 1960's.  The US white  power structure  has been passing color neutral immigration laws, and expansive laws which allow alot of people from all over the world to come here, since 1965.
    To me, this shows a US political establishment that embraces a "coalition of the ascendant", and a non-white future US, and has since 1965.