Posted on 07/22/2011 8:13:38 PM PDT by neverdem
Democrats' advantage over Republicans in partisan affiliation is way down from 2008 as white voters have turned against them, according to a poll released Friday by the Pew Research Center.
While minority voters continue to support Democrats in large numbers, what was just a two-point Republican edge among whites in 2008 has grown to a 13-point advantage today. Republican gains among white voters are "particularly pronounced among the young and poor," according to the report.
White voters under age 30 now break for Republicans by an 11-point margin; in 2008 they broke for Democrats by a seven-point margin. This could spell trouble for President Obama's reelection efforts, as he capitalized on a coalition of minority voters and younger white voters to become president.
Part of the calculus might be the economy: Young adults have the highest rate of unemployment of any age group.
Democrats still hold a 47-44 percent advantage in partisan affiliation, counting those who lean to one party or another, according to the poll. But because minorities tend to vote at lower rates, that slight advantage is likely not enough to translate to wins at the ballot box.
There was a story out two weeks ago about this current recession/depression wiping out te black middle class.
Blacks lose out most obviously to illegal aliens for labor positions. Unions lose out from illegal immigration.
Yet unions and blacks keep supporting Rats to their own detriment.
Maybe white guilt helped get this clown elected, but maybe white outrage will toss his sorry ass out.
Yes. And may blacks be outraged that the SOB has set race relations back at least 50 years.
0bama is one evil sonofabitch.
Unfortunately ethnicity is still part of our culture.
Thanks for the graphs.
Really? Take a look around at the crap that passes for “elected officials” in Black districts/cities. Tell me just how Blacks can to be thinking people when they routinely elect Black crooks to public office. Rangel, Waters, the Gaggle from Detroit, Jackson-Lee, “Cold Cash” Jefferson, Cummings, the congressman who thinks Guam is about to capsize, list is endless. It’s all about skin color. When it comes to the decent, intelligent Blacks ( Col.West, Herman Cain, JD Watts), they are elected by White people. Go figure!
Lets hope so because the media is going to try exactly what worked for them the last time but I think this time it will fail because people are sick and tired of being called racists just because we don’t like this guy..its not about race, its about him being a marxist ass who wants to destroy this country
Union leadership also sees illegal aliens as potential dues-paying members.
The SEIU has been very successful in organizing illegals in the hotel industry, for example. And illegals make good union members because they're uneducated and pliable -- they will do what they're told and accept the leadership's abuse.
I didn’t say all blacks were thinking, just that all thinking blacks should reconsider their options. Just as I wouldn’t say all whites are thinking ... after all, white guilt help put this piece of crap in office.
Government employee union members now far outnumber those union members in the private sector.
I look forward to the day that this margin goes to 30 points, i.e. 65-35 GOP-Dem.
Government employee union members now far outnumber those union members in the private sector.
It’s Pew...
Never trust a Pew poll!
That gives the SEIU too much credit. They have retained control of the big full-service hotels in cities where hotels have been unionized for decades, even as the workforce turned over from black and white to mostly Hispanic. They haven’t converted any non-union cities, nor have they won victories in limited service properties, even in union cities, that I know of.
The SEIU’s most touted campaign — unionizing outsourced janitors — has really been a holding action, as the buildings being cleaned usually had unionized cleaning staff before the work was outsourced.
Yet another reason for unions to favor illegal immigration.
Votes.
Public employee unions desperately want (need) Democrats in charge of the government.
Obama is buyer’s remorse. He has set the country back 50 years.
Still the polls over sample Dems.
Nice to see the concept of self-defense is not dead.
Democrats only lead 47-44? Wow. No pollster picks respondents at anything less that +10 Dims generally +15
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This time when we have conrol of all 3 houses it is time to slash entitlements because we can not continue to support a lifestyle for those who refuse to work.If it were up to me there would be no money given out and food would be limited to staples and items you could cook no convience and junk.
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