Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By John Cassidy, newyorker.com, Nov. 9, 2012
Why did so many white women vote for Mitt Romney, despite his recent shift to the right on women’s issues?
[.... ]You don’t believe me? Here are some figures from this year’s exit poll, which the Edison Research company conducts for a consortium of media companies, and from previous ones. In 2004, Bush got fifty-five per cent of the white female vote, and Kerry got forty-four per cent—a “reverse gender gap” (one working in the G.O.P.’s favor) of eleven points. In 2008, McCain got fifty-three per cent of the white female vote, and Obama got forty-six per cent—a gap of seven points. Compared to four years earlier, the reverse gender gap in this demographic had decreased by four points, indicating that the Democrats were making progress in attracting the votes of white women. But this year, that trend turned around again. Far from narrowing further, the reverse gender gap among white women widened to fourteen points. Romney got fifty-six per cent of the white female vote; Obama got just forty-two per cent.
When I first saw these figures, I was surprised, too. How could Obama have done so poorly among white women and yet carried the overall female vote by eleven points—fifty-five per cent to forty-four per cent? The answer is that white females make up a smaller proportion of the overall electorate than they used to—thirty-eight per cent in 2012 compared to forty-one per cent in 2004—and Obama wracked up enormous majorities among non-white women, who are growing in numbers [....]
Comments
[...](In families that made less than a hundred thousand dollars a year, Obama won by eight points. In families that made more than a hundred thousand dollars a year, Romney won by ten points.) [...]
So what's white got to do with it?
I really find the growing fixation and narrative of whites against Obama very disturbing.
Hopefully this election was the Southern Strategy's last hurrah. It is hardly surprising that its chief advocates grew louder and more obnoxious in their desperation to remain relevant to the GOP.
What is really puzzling to me is why so many progressive/left/liberal writers are taking up the cause from the opposite end and demonizing whites.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 10:03am
1) Presumably a large number of white women have identity politics as an influence in voting for a white candidate, just like the 96% of black women voting for a black candidate even with black unemployment in the mid-teens. I betcha most Hispanic candidates got more than 56% of Hispanic women's vote running against non-Hispanics. That's life.
2) While I heard some conservatives with bone-headed misogynistic statements, I can't say I recall Obama specifically going after the white female vote. So you've got those who are anti-abortion who won't be thrilled, and then for those who are pro-choice, abortion was left out of ACA. What other issues were supposed to attract white females - 2 more years in Afghanistan? Forgiving banks for illegal foreclosures?
Frankly, I think Obama got lucky with the % he had. If the Republicans had any ability to field a candidate with an attractive plan and absent foot in mouth, Obama would have been in trouble. Instead, he got binders full of women to vote for him.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 11:46am
Frankly, I think Obama got lucky with the % he had. If the Republicans had any ability to field a candidate with an attractive plan and absent foot in mouth, Obama would have been in trouble. Instead, he got binders full of women to vote for him.
I agree but after trying for several hours, I cannot think of a credible conservative they have to offer; but then, I cannot think anyone for the Democrats in 2016 either.
I did think about Jeb or his son George Prescott Garnica Bush but W has pretty effectively kiboshed them in the near term.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 4:56pm
And Christie is tainted now.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 5:11pm
or his son George Prescott Garnica Bush
he's on it:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121109/DA2E8UH83.html
Saw it on Drudge; I think it might be good to check out what Drudge is putting up for the next couple weeks, enquiring minds and all....
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 5:20pm
Thanks. I should probably set up a news feed for him -- Prescott, not Drudge.
Along the same line of thought, saw this bit of navel gazing at National Review
Conservatives’ Terrifying Message
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 5:43pm