Has Democrat Party Lost the White Vote?

[Rotagilla]

Has the Democrat Party lost White Voters? The data suggests the Democrat Party has largely lost White male voters....maybe forever. Romney captured almost 2/3rd of the white male vote. Now White women seem to be trending away from the Dems in a big way. There is an excellent article by the Associated Press regarding the movement of whites away from the Democrat Party.

A key quote: "Democratic Senate candidates lost ground among white voters by an average of 10 points compared with 2008. White voters abandoned Democrats in droves in places with heated contests as well as those without much action."

Kay Hagan got just 33% of the white vote.
Mark Warner 37% of the white vote.
Mary Landrieu 18% of the white vote.


Even in blue Illinois: "Democratic Senator Dick Durbin captured 43 percent of the white vote in his successful bid for re-election, that's down 18 points from his support among whites in 2008."


This is terrible news for the Democrats. So the question is out there: Have the Democrats lost the white vote?


Here is a link to the AP story.


News from The Associated Press

The GOP lost 8 Senate seats in 2008.

Check your calendar.
This isn't 2008...

We've had 6 years of obama and democrats antics...it's going to stop now. People are fed up.

 

[Mac1958]

To me....the Democrat Party is the party of a hyphenated America. In other words, we are no longer simply Americans. We are African-Americans.....Latino-Americans.....Gay-Americans.....Transgender-Americans.....Asian-Americans.


I am personally sick of the bullshit. I think many are. Can we just start being Americans again? Can we all be proud of our Country and what each group has contributed?

It's just a thought......

I think it's possible that PC is beginning to lose some of its power. Admittedly, that may just be wishful thinking on my part, but we'll see.

Hyphenating America has certainly been a successful strategy for the Left -- divide & conquer, identity politics. The question is whether their strategy of "victory through demographics" will work, as there are some small signs that it may not.

We'll see.

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[Rotagilla]

What peculiar force is it that possesses RWnuts and causes them to think that every election they happen to win is the watershed moment in politics that is going to steer the course of history for the next 100 years?

make up any answer you like..you're talking to yourself anyway.
but do continue it's quite entertaining, bitter, frustrated little partisan...

 

[Rotagilla]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

Well, that proves whites aren't voting "race", doesn't it?

 

[LeftofLeft]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

Southern Whites who fly the Stars and Bars voted a Black man to represent them for the next 6 years and yet Liberals think these same Southern Whites who don't agree with Obama are racist???

Clearly, both Nixon's Southern Strategy and Johnson's 200 Year Plan are working.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

Well, that proves whites aren't voting "race", doesn't it?

lol, his opponent was black as well.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Has the Democrat Party lost White Voters? The data suggests the Democrat Party has largely lost White male voters....maybe forever. Romney captured almost 2/3rd of the white male vote. Now White women seem to be trending away from the Dems in a big way. There is an excellent article by the Associated Press regarding the movement of whites away from the Democrat Party.

A key quote: "Democratic Senate candidates lost ground among white voters by an average of 10 points compared with 2008. White voters abandoned Democrats in droves in places with heated contests as well as those without much action."

Kay Hagan got just 33% of the white vote.
Mark Warner 37% of the white vote.
Mary Landrieu 18% of the white vote.


Even in blue Illinois: "Democratic Senator Dick Durbin captured 43 percent of the white vote in his successful bid for re-election, that's down 18 points from his support among whites in 2008."


This is terrible news for the Democrats. So the question is out there: Have the Democrats lost the white vote?


Here is a link to the AP story.


News from The Associated Press

The GOP lost 8 Senate seats in 2008.

Check your calendar.
This isn't 2008...

We've had 6 years of obama and democrats antics...it's going to stop now. People are fed up.

The OP brought up 2008. Learn to read.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Mostly, the Democrats lost some Red State Senate seats.

In 2016, the Republicans will have to defend at least 8 GOP seats in Blue States.

 

[FJO]

If black conservatives/Republicans are "traitors to their race", so are white liberals/Democrats.

 

[ricechickie]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

Well, that proves whites aren't voting "race", doesn't it?

And neither were blacks?

 

[Katzndogz]

A sizeable voter group only has to be told that the party doesn't represent them and has no interest in their issues before that group believes it. Democrats have made a choice, they could represent the majority or a collection of minorities that they HOPE will be able to outvote the majority. That choice lost them the election. Mark Udall hung on to women's issues so ferociously that the media started calling him Mark Uterus.

If there is any comfort to democrats to be had, it's that the same thing happened in Australia, with the same predictable results.

Gender war backfires as men ditch Australia PM - Yahoo News UK

 

[FJO]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

So, the racist white hillbilly redneck must have elected the black guy who was declared by his fellow blacks a ventriloquist dummy and a traitor to his race.

Makes perfect sense.

 

[Nyvin]

Outside of the Southern US, the country doesn't really vote along ethnic lines as much. In New Hampshire the voting population is 91% white and Jeanne Shaheen still won there.

Also this election is looking to be both the oldest and the lowest turnout in quite a while. That is also a very key point.

 

[FJO]

What peculiar force is it that possesses RWnuts and causes them to think that every election they happen to win is the watershed moment in politics that is going to steer the course of history for the next 100 years?

What peculiar force it that possesses left wingers to think that the Illinois boy wonder won the presidency on anything else than the watershed moment in history of electing the first black president????

Would that same peculiar force compel them to believe that there is going to be another black Democrat president in the next hundred years, based on the sad experience with this empty suit?

 

[FJO]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

Well, that proves whites aren't voting "race", doesn't it?

lol, his opponent was black as well.

Which proves that in the racist redneck white South black men had better not aspire for political office.

 

[WelfareQueen]

Thank you queen for informative post. I am not quite sure that the research is on the up and up. What I heard about Colorado was that Gardner got more Latino votes, women votes and I believe younger votes. Tom Cotton also led in a state that has gone totally from democratic to republican, it can't be all white people in a state that Bill Clinton won a number of times. And can the black Tim Scott of South Carolina owe his election totally to white people, I don't think so. Finally what happened to the repubs can't win without minority votes, funny how the reality changes so much in two years. What the hell do these talking heads know?

Minorities tend to vote less in midterms, and more Republican in midterms (Hispanics for instance tend to vote more Republican in midterms, and very heavy democratic in presidential election years).

Regardless, presidential elections are what matters. And the GOP does terrible with minorities there.

Oh, and Dems won 38% of the white vote, which was slightly higher than in 2010.

No.....your facts are wrong. The Democrats lost white voters more so than any other election. Black voters are also beginning to slowly move away from the Democrat party.

A key quote from the AP:

"The rule of thumb was Democrats could win with 90 percent of the African-American vote and 40 percent of the white vote," said Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta.


"But now very few Democrats could think about getting 40 percent of the white vote. They're trying to get 30 percent. In the Deep South states, from South Carolina to Louisiana, it's very hard for the Democratic candidate to get 25 percent of the white vote."

The article states Dems have steadily lost the white vote since the 2006 mid-terms. Not good news.....particularly since blacks in this last election cycle are voting under the 90% target the Dems need to win.


Here is a link to the story.


Why GOP Won Shifting White Votes Hurt Democrats

 

[Ava]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

Very telling the NAACP is worried about conservative black politicians and here is why.

NAACP doesn't acknowledge minority GOP wins

Nov. 08, 2014 - 3:16 - Raffi Williams discusses midterm results

NAACP doesn t acknowledge minority GOP wins On Air Videos Fox News

 

[JakeStarkey]

Of course not re: Has the Democrat Party lost White Voters?

Millennials don't care about race like X and boomers.

 

[Mac1958]

Tim Scott, the first black Senator from SC, got 10% of the black vote.

Very telling the NAACP is worried about conservative black politicians and here is why.

NAACP doesn't acknowledge minority GOP wins

Nov. 08, 2014 - 3:16 - Raffi Williams discusses midterm results

NAACP doesn t acknowledge minority GOP wins On Air Videos Fox News

Wow.

Well, not surprising, I guess.

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[Ava]

Of course not re: Has the Democrat Party lost White Voters?

Millennials don't care about race like X and boomers.

Not according to most pundits and one Harvard study, Jake. Of the ones who know anything about politics, the trend is away from socialism.