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Exit polls: Obama's winning coalition of women and nonwhites
WLS AM ^ | Nov 7, 2012

Posted on 11/07/2012 6:52:07 AM PST by KeyLargo

NEW YORK (WLS) - A coalition of women and nonwhites helped re-elect President Obama to a second term Tuesday night.

Obama has always performed better with women than with men, and with nonwhites than with whites. But on Tuesday night, those numbers were so much in his favor that they built Obama a powerful firewall against a dropoff in support from white men and independent voters.

Nonwhite voters turned out to vote in higher numbers than ever. They made up 21 percent of all voters. In 1996, they were just 10 percent.

That new bloc was evident in Florida, the perennial swing state that was thought to be in Mitt Romney's corner. Hispanics came out in force for Obama, in greater numbers than in 2008 when Obama beat John McCain among Hispanics in Florida 57 to 42 percent. On Tuesday, he beat Romney among Hispanics 60 to 39 percent.

And as the country tinted blue for the second presidential election in a row, it also got a little less white.

(Excerpt) Read more at wlsam.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012analysis; 2012analysisreligion; 2012electionanalysis; 2012exitpolls; exitpolls; hispanics; muslims; obama; women
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To: littleharbour

ditto for Latino’s who, for the most part, are family oriented, hard working, religious people....the day workers in my area, the ones who stand on the side of the roads willing to do any type of work in any kind of weather 7 days a week, are all latino...i don’t see any unemployed blacks or women out there competing for work...


61 posted on 11/07/2012 7:59:44 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Lockbar

Women always say that men think between their legs. I guess the same can be said for a great many women as well.


62 posted on 11/07/2012 8:04:53 AM PST by eekitsagreek
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To: KeyLargo

When America’s obituary is written in the very near future, it will say, “Died from plantation owners not willing to pick their own cotton, farmers importing cheap labor and giving women the right to vote.” RIP


63 posted on 11/07/2012 8:11:16 AM PST by waus (FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
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To: dragnet2

You nailed it!

Now, is there any place left on earth where people can be free? I’m beginning to think not.


64 posted on 11/07/2012 8:17:40 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: KeyLargo

White men build it, everyone else pulls together to destroy it. America = Detroit.
We should have planted a flag on the moon of a white guy smirking, just to see how long it would have taken them to get there to tear it down.


65 posted on 11/07/2012 8:19:33 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Question_Assumptions

One thing really puzzles me: Many of these idiotic American women sit with aged and malfunctioning reproductive systems, yet ABORTION seems to be the first, last and only priority in their “lives”.


66 posted on 11/07/2012 8:25:26 AM PST by GOPsterinMA
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To: rbg81

I would like to learn more about the veracity of this conjecture. Anecdotally, it does not seem to be true in California. Most single women seem quite happy in that state and I sense no desperation from them in needing to find a marriage partner, at least if they are under 30 or so (and so at that age they have had 12 or so years to find a partner). I’m not a woman but I presume finding a marriage partner is not terribly more difficult than finding a boyfriend (which seems to me to be a lot easier than for a guy to find a girlfriend, or maybe I am just missing something lol). Also this seems to be a worldwide phenomenon, at least in industrialized nations, excluding certain minorities, some of whom tend to marry early and some of whom don’t marry or divorce but have kids anyway.


67 posted on 11/07/2012 8:35:43 AM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Question_Assumptions

You’re right about that split. But single women don’t want someone to take care of them, they just want someone who can at least acknowledge their challenges.

Take equal pay, a huge issue with women in the workplace. Came up in the debate. Obama said yeah we need to help ensure that. Romney was lost, never committed that he was for helping women with equal pay. Even if he believes there is no role for the feds in equal pay, he should have supported it in a stronger way.

Next up is education, another women issue. Romney said if you need money go to your parents. That was highly publicized and too late for him to set the record straight. A stupid, stupid remark.

The pocketbook candidate lost single women on those two pocketbook issues. Abortion had little to do with it.


68 posted on 11/07/2012 8:35:55 AM PST by gotribe (He's a mack-daddy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV415yit7Zg)
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To: longfellowsmuse
nice try...but I’m not easily hoodwinked

:unsure:

of course people who get married will have higher divorce rates than people that do not....duh

And also accounts for Romney states representing 7 out of 10 and 16 out of 25 of the states with the highest proportion of children in single parent homes!

Children in single-parent families (Percent) – 2011

69 posted on 11/07/2012 8:42:15 AM PST by ksen
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Class warfare and contraception. A winning Democrat combination.

Best two sentence analysis of this election I've seen. What goes on in the minds of these people? Rational, logical arguments are incapable of reaching them. And they're without a shred of patriotism. Or rather, they define patriotism as free government birth control. Can a republic survive if this is how the majority of its citizens function? History says "no." Our day of reckoning is coming.

70 posted on 11/07/2012 8:42:54 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: blueplum

More men are in prison or are felons, women live longer, and at the far end of the spectrum, more men are marginally attached to society.


71 posted on 11/07/2012 8:48:17 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: KeyLargo

if we had Rubio on the ticket then woudl we have won this election?

I ask ebcause we know FL woudl have gone to us, there are many hispanics in VA, CO, NM and I;m not sure but I bet OH too.


72 posted on 11/07/2012 8:49:46 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: mojito
Thank you.

IMHO, this election, the 2008 election and the Clinton years were lost beginning in 1988, when the GOP capitulated to Dem demands for ever increased spending and failed to educate (and continually reeducate) the public on the benefits of low taxes, free markets and the originalist view of the Constitution.

It didn't help that there was absolutely no attempt to explain the true genesis of the economic/housing collapse that started the last two Bush years and point out that it aligned with the Dems retaking Congress.

Nothing will change until the GOP rights those wrongs and corrects history

73 posted on 11/07/2012 8:49:59 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: Old Sarge

Take a good look at those women in the photo and read this article:

http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/why-single-white-women-vote-overwhelmingly-for-democrats/

I guarantee that in 30 years these same women will wonder what in the world were they thinking in voting for this idiot.


74 posted on 11/07/2012 8:50:16 AM PST by eekitsagreek
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To: SeekAndFind

Like I said: When Romney said that 47% of the vote wasn’t worth wasting his time on he was dead right.


75 posted on 11/07/2012 8:52:26 AM PST by Venturer
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To: RightOnline

what we need is ot have questions asked about the issues before these ignorant dopes can vote and that way at least we know what they’re voting for.

Ask most of these racist blacks if they;re for ilegals, homosexuality etc and they’;re all saying no and yet they vote because obama was not white and where IS TH EMEDIA AND THEIR COVERAGE OF RACISM BY THESE BLACK VOTERS?

Yea like every issue the media ignores and just does an agenda


76 posted on 11/07/2012 8:54:22 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: xzins

I asked the same about Rubio.

Rubio would have given us hispanics and FL and probably VA, CO, NM,\\

Asked this when he picked Ryan and got whacked and I;m still asking.
I talked to a couple of hispanics today and they said the hispanic population would have got behind the republican party if Rubio had been on the ticket but I’m guessing that most on here will disagree


77 posted on 11/07/2012 8:58:37 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: snarkytart

agreed and yet we still get ignorant idiots , even on our side which keep saying they have no problem wiht homosexual marriage.

They can;t see the bigger picture or agenda because all they care about is themselves and not this country.

The left have worked hard to destry the fmaly as the commies back in the 60’s knew that the family was the backbone of the country and they had to destroy it by changing marriage and family to all sorts of perverted sick crap

When some on our side stopped thinking the world is about them and homosexuals marriage is not just about marriage then we can start to fight back for this country.


78 posted on 11/07/2012 9:06:08 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: KeyLargo

Funny how females publicly condemned this as immature, but then when they got into the voting both, VOILA! THEY VOTED WITH THEIR LADY PARTS!!

79 posted on 11/07/2012 9:06:29 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: gotribe

The problem is that Romney’s answer about equal pay in the debate, about job flexibility so that women could take care of children and other family members, is actually much of the reason why there is a pay gap between men and women. Women choose jobs that have shorter hours and give them for flexibility. So Romney actually was speaking to the problem in a far more sophisticated way that advocating a mandate, but the narrate has been so controlled by the left, I’m guessing few people got that. You apparently didn’t.

As for paying for college, he spoke to that, too, including talking about the policies that they had in Massachusetts to help kids go to college but, again, it didn’t fit the media narrative where the only write answer was that the government should just pay for it all.


80 posted on 11/07/2012 9:09:06 AM PST by Question_Assumptions
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