White Voters

[tallguy23]

Will a majority of white voters ever vote a minority candidate for President? I know Obama, for a Democrat,  did the best among white voters since Carter but McCain still won the white vote.

[Phony Moderate]

They did in 2008. The majority are not 72 years old.

[Dgov]

Will a majority of white voters ever vote a minority candidate for President? I know Obama, for a Democrat,  did the best among white voters since Carter but McCain still won the white vote.

They will, once the GOP runs a minority for president.  The only way a Democrat could win a majority of white voters is in like a 60+% election anyway, and that's not likely.

[tpfkaw]

They did in 2008. The majority are not 72 years old.

White voters voted like 52% for McCain.

[feeblepizza]

They did in 2008. The majority are not 72 years old.

White voters voted like 52% for McCain.

Therefore, he won the white vote.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

They did in 2008. The majority are not 72 years old.

White voters voted like 52% for McCain.

CNN exit polls had the white vote at 55-43 McCain. Among white men, 57-41.

[Badlands17]

Will a majority of white voters ever vote a minority candidate for President? I know Obama, for a Democrat,  did the best among white voters since Carter but McCain still won the white vote.

They will, once the GOP runs a minority for president.  The only way a Democrat could win a majority of white voters is in like a 60+% election anyway, and that's not likely.

This. I think it's important to note that Obama likely did win the white vote excluding the South (not positive but I think the margin there as opposed to the total is enough to make that estimation), where McCain won it by 80%+ margins in many states where the parties are quite polarized along racial lines. Thus, either this would need to happen or the South's party politics would need to coalesce along some nonracial dichotomies.

[reagan84]

If the GOP was to nominate Bobby Jindal, he'd get 60% of the white vote.  It's not based on skin color but ideology.
In South Carolina, a black candidate beat Strom Thurmond's son in the GOP primary then went on to defeat a white democrat.  I'm sick of people calling southerners racist because of their voting patterns.  Yes, that was true 50 years ago but not now.

[opebo]

If the GOP was to nominate Bobby Jindal, he'd get 60% of the white vote.  It's not based on skin color but ideology.
In South Carolina, a black candidate beat Strom Thurmond's son in the GOP primary then went on to defeat a white democrat.  I'm sick of people calling southerners racist because of their voting patterns.  Yes, that was true 50 years ago but not now.

No, it is still true, and you are in denial.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

here is a thread with some maps of the white/minority/men/women vote for 2008 (I'm not sure of the data source)

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=100839.0