[EBH]

I agree with 9YearLurker, these graphs are terribly deceiving, but so is the write-up. And actually the second graph in particular shows exactly the opposite of the argument being made! Since when is picking-up 26% of the vote more than the democrats picking up 73%? The graph shows democrats pickng-up huge percentages across all minority demographics and yet the author tries to convince us that the small percentage republicans pickup is more?

The article seems to be intellectually dishonest.

[zencycler]

Here's a quick fix to this graph - we can use this data to extrapolate what percent of those voting Republican are white, black, etc., which then could be more accurately compared to the racial makeup of the country.

For example, 63 out of 100 of Americans are white, 59% of them voted Republican, so we have 37.17 whites voting Repulican. Following this pattern, we get the racial breakdown of the Republican vote:

37.17 - White - 85.84%
_4.05 - Hispa - _9.35%
_1.30 - Asian - _3.00%
_0.78 - Black - _1.80%
-------................-------
43.30 - Total -100.00% (rounding difference)


So that is the reality, and the truth is, we have some work to do.