http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/whitevote/ en-us Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:16:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063499/posts In an interview on National Public Radio last week, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean touted the racial and gender diversity of the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. In what sounded like a slip of the tongue, he momentarily referred to the GOP as the "white party." Paging Dr. Freud. The McCain campaign pounced on the remark. Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and chair of Victory 2008 -- and one of the highest-ranking females in the McCain campaign -- issued a statement calling Dean's comments -- as if they had been intentional -- "insulting, inappropriate, and have no... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063499/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061228/posts THE MOST remarkable fact of the 2008 presidential election is that it remains a close race. Democrats have not known such favorable political terrain since 1932, yet what should be a blowout is looking like a blanket finish. The fundamental reason is white men. Like Al Gore in the summer of 2000, Barack Obama is roughly splitting white women. But only 34 to 37 percent of white men support Obama, according to the Gallup Poll's latest weekly index of 6,000 voters. In fairness to Obama, he inherited the problem. Not since 1976, when Democrats last achieved a majority, has a... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061228/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:03:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047132/posts And only Only 32% of whites think Obama is "Very Patriotic" versus 77% for McCain. Another little gem. Guess which race will not vote for a black guy? Hmmmm. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047132/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:31:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044665/posts The larger point of Jesse L. Jackson's criticism of Barack Obama -- if not the crude way he expressed it -- touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator 's pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community. Eric Easter, a blogger on the joint Web site of Jet and Ebony, two black-oriented magazines, wrote yesterday that some of Obama's rhetoric "smacked of calculated political expediency" in an effort to win over white voters. The criticism was similar in some ways to the reaction to comedian Bill Cosby,... CBS and Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044665/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:57:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037146/posts White working-class voters typically aren't in vogue, with the political chatter tending to revolve around "soccer moms," the "youth vote" or other boutique demographic groups of the moment. But the late charge of Hillary Clinton's doomed presidential campaign made white working-class voters surprisingly fashionable. They'll stay that way if the important new book "Grand New Party," by two young writers for The Atlantic, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, has the impact on the political debate that it should. In an incisive analysis of the past 30 years of our politics, Douthat and Salam puncture self-comforting delusions of both the right... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037146/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:47:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036164/posts Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader accused Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic Party nominee, of downplaying poverty issues, trying to "talk white" and appealing to "white guilt" during his run for the White House. Nader, a thorn in the Democratic Party's side since the 2000 presidential election, has taken various shots at Obama in recent days while ramping up his latest independent run for president. ----- The Obama campaign had only a brief response, calling the remarks disappointing. Asked to clarify whether he thought Obama does try to "talk white," Nader said: "Of course. ---- Nader said he plans to... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036164/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:08:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034883/posts Over half of the American Whites consider presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "risky" choice for the White House, whereas two-thirds believe McCain as a "safe" pick, a new survey has revealed. The survey by the Washington Post/ABC News also opens up apprehensions of the race factor being whipped up by white supremist groups as a way to stop the Illinois Senator and the first African American from entering the White House. The survey has shown that over half of Whites called 46-year-old Obama a "risky" choice for the top post, while two-thirds said McCain is a "safe"... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034883/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:03:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033698/posts Despite the lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy among some Christian conservative activists, Sen. John McCain so far is performing well among rank and file evangelical voters. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week found McCain collecting about 68 percent of the white evangelical vote, compared to Barack Obama's 22 percent. That number is very similar to level of support President Bush received in June 2004, when he led then Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry 65 to 30 among white evangelicals. And it's essentially unchanged from polls in March, despite the Arizona senator's distancing of himself from evangelical pastors... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033698/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:44:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025171/posts The woman who shouted "McCain in '08" at the Democratic rules committee was speaking for a multitude. After mounting for months, female anger over the choreographed dumping on Hillary Clinton and her supporters has exploded -- and party loyalty be damned. That the women are beginning to have a good time is an especially bad sign for Barack Obama's campaign. "Obama will NOT get my vote, and one step more," Ellen Thorp, a 59-year-old flight attendant from Houston told me. "I have been a Democrat for 38 years. As of today, I am registering as an independent. Yee Haw!" A... real clear politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025171/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:42:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024282/posts With senator Barack Obama poised this week to clinch his party's nomination for President, there are growing fears in some quarters that the Democratic party may not be choosing its strongest candidate to beat Republican John McCain. Senator Hillary Clinton has been making that argument for weeks. Now some recent polls and analysis, looking particularly at vital battleground states and support among white voters, have bolstered her case - even as Obama looks certain to become the nominee. Obama supporters reject this argument and point to his record of boosting Democratic voter turnout, especially among the young. But sceptics in... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024282/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 05:21:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2022590/posts RFFM.org Commentary While watching politics for most of my adult life, I never cease to be amazed at how dumb the two major political Parties can be. And this year may top them all for absurdity. Heading into the primary season, the Democrats had everything going their way. George Bush's favorability ratings hovered somewhere around 30%, the Democrats just came off of winning back both Houses of Congress in 2006 and, in general, during the last decade the Republican Party was doing its best imitation of how to govern like Democrats. Hillary Clinton herself had high disapproval numbers, but a... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2022590/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 19:48:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021288/posts This message is for that oppressed, neglected, passed over, bitter, gun-toting group of people otherwise known as working-class white males: You really don't matter. To all the hand-wringing over Sen. Barack Obama's alleged problem with winning over the votes of those white men, let's counter with some other facts. Obama has a lot of company. John Kerry. Al Gore. Bill Clinton. Michael Dukakis. Walter Mondale. Jimmy Carter. Just to name the six most recent Democratic nominees who lost the white, working-class, male vote. In a matchup with Sen. John McCain, Sen. Hillary Clinton does no better than Obama among these... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021288/posts#comment Mon, 26 May 2008 02:51:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020878/posts In an attempt to explain how race will impact Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's run for the White House, Newsweek has created a "Racial Resentment Index" exclusively for white people without measuring such biases of non-whites. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020878/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 23:25:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020722/posts A new NEWSWEEK Poll underscores Obama's racial challenge. Even as he closes in on the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Sen. Barack Obama is facing lingering problems winning the support of white voters--including some in his own party. Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020722/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 15:40:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020580/posts Hillary Rodham Clinton is right. She has the broader and whiter political coalition, so she should, by all rights, be the Democratic presidential nominee. After all, in other realms of the political process, we routinely refer to "black districts" or "Latino districts" and speak of the necessity of those jurisdictions to be represented by black or Latino elected officials. Well, then, because the American population is 66% white, maybe the United States is a de facto white district that should be represented accordingly. Don't scoff at the idea. Ethnic and racial self-determination have been underlying factors in the formation of... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020580/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 03:46:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019752/posts DES MOINES, Iowa - Barack Obama shied away from triumphantly proclaiming total victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton last night, but he certainly annihilated the central reason she gives for staying in the race. The Clinton team claims that Sen. Obama is nothing more than a black candidate with a sidecar of liberal academics. This is why, the Clintons argue, white Democrats in working-class and rural states simply can't pull the lever for this black guy with a foreign-sounding name. And, the Clinton's implied reasoning goes, since she appeals so much to these racist white Democrats that are the "backbone" of... nypost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019752/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 16:41:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018959/posts Even before I heard Chris Matthews mention it, it struck me too . . . Among the visuals a big-time campaign carefully choreographs is the human backdrop when the candidate speaks—particularly when it's a matter of an important, nationally-televised speech. So it's very hard to imagine that it was coincidence that the crowd visible behind Hillary this evening as she gave her Kentucky primary victory speech . . . was comprised 100% of people of pallor. Kibitzing with co-anchor Keith Olbermann immediately after Clinton's comments, Matthews mentioned it. CHRIS MATTHEWS: I thought a giveaway line was "who is best positioned... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018959/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 01:33:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016342/posts . . . Before the April and early May primaries, cultural and racial politics seemed to throw the Obama campaign off its stride, especially as the controversy over Obama's former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, smoldered, then flared again. It angered Don Lutes, a retired steelworker and union official from Griffith, Ind., who voted early for Clinton. "All this came out with the Rev. Wright and this [former Weatherman] Bill Ayers deal," Lutes says. "I can't believe he knew this Ayers. They bombed the Capitol. How could he associate with people like that? That really turned me off. And [Obama's]... In These Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016342/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 15:07:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016530/posts Furthermore, Obama does not deserve the vote of any Catholic, Jew, or self-respecting African-American. The reason has nothing to do with the color of his skin, and everything to do with the content (or lack thereof) of his character. ...It is easy to imagine white people, and especially Jewish white people, reacting to this picture the way most African-Americans would react to a candidate posing arm in arm with someone in a sheet and hood in front of a burning cross. ...Hillary Clinton added, and quite correctly, that she “found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans,... IsraPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016530/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 22:01:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016167/posts I'll never forget a frigid morning in Springfield: Sen. Barack Obama, elegantly Lincolnesque in a long wool coat, launching his presidential candidacy in the shadow of the old Illinois State Capitol. The echoes of history were almost deafening—not just of Abraham Lincoln, who, like Obama, had been a legislator there, but of the argument over slavery and race that Lincoln had joined there. On that sunny February day in 2007, Obama seemed to radiate uplift and glorious possibility. He was making a statement: that his candidacy would be the exclamation point at the end of our four-century-long argument over the... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016167/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 03:38:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015503/posts A confluence of groups customarily inclined toward Hillary Clinton was voting in the West Virginia primary, with less-educated, lower-income Southern whites predominating. Nonetheless there was room for criticism of Clinton -- and bringing "needed change," Barack Obama's trademark, was again the most-desired candidate trait. The Race Factor Racially motivated voting appeared to be running higher than usual: Two in 10 whites said the race of the candidate was a factor in their vote, second only to Mississippi. And only a third of those voters said they'd support Obama as the nominee against John McCain, fewer than in other primaries where... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015503/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 22:41:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014507/posts Democrats bristle at talking about this in plainer terms. They say Sen. Hillary Clinton has found her base -- the "working class." That's why she won in the Rust Belt primaries. That's her great hope in Kentucky and West Virginia. But calling Clinton's strategy one of kowtowing to the "working class" doesn't quite say it, does it? Isn't this just old-fashioned racism within the Democratic Party? When Hillary strategists say they are winning the "working class," they don't mean they are winning working people with a household income of, say, less than $50,000. All the exit polls show quite clearly... Las Vegas Review Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014507/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 20:47:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014442/posts Hillary Clinton, down to her last straw, is making the case that she is the better candidate to run against the Republicans because, unlike Barack Obama, she can win white Democrats. She is right. But because she is daring to touch the hot button of racial politics, she is being told to shut up or risk being charged with exploiting racial tensions for political advantage. The facts are stubborn, however. Since his phenomenal win with 33% of the white vote in nearly all-white Iowa, Obama has been unable to get a firm grip on white Democrats. He has won a... The New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014442/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 17:23:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014296/posts NEW YORK — Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), among Hillary Rodham Clinton’s top African-American supporters, was none too pleased with Clinton’s comments this week to USA Today that she has broader appeal with white voters. The statement was “the dumbest thing she could have said,” Rangel told reporters before a Clinton fundraiser in a midtown hotel ballroom Saturday. He called her statement “very poorly worded” but acknowledged there may be some truth to it. “In any campaign, there are groups of people that you know that you have and groups of people that you don’t,” he said. “And I don’t... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014296/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 04:08:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013921/posts Whether or not the Democratic primary marathon between two path-breaking candidates has been good for the party or the country, it has clearly been good for people like me: political scientists who study voting behavior. We've been given a data gold mine, the results of an experiment that no one intended to conduct. Sen. Barack Obama is the all but certain Democratic nominee, but voting patterns in Indiana and North Carolina show that resistance to a black candidate among some white Democrats remains a serious threat to his chances in November: · As in other recent primaries, Sen. Hillary Rodham... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013921/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 05:25:45 GMT