The next America
With Obama’s victory, Democrats have quietly won the popular vote in five of the six presidential elections since 1992. That matches the Republican record of winning the popular vote in five of the six elections from 1968 to 1988. (Democrats generally won by smaller margins and had the asterisk election of 2000, when Al Gore lost the Electoral College.) Obama became the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to attract more than 50 percent of the vote in consecutive elections.
The fact that he did so while losing white voters so decisively underscored both his achievement and the social change that the result encapsulated. Before the election, I argued that Obama’s formula for success could be reduced to an equation of 80/40. So long as minorities represented at least 26 percent of voters (their share in 2008), Obama could amass a national majority by winning 80 percent of nonwhite voters and only 40 percent of whites. In fact, pending final adjustments in the exit poll, he hit that mark almost precisely, winning 80 percent of minorities and 39 percent of whites. Obama carried 93 percent of African-Americans, 73 percent of Asian-Americans, 71 percent of Hispanics, and 58 percent of all other racial and ethnic minorities, the exit polls found. He held most of his 2008 margins in white-collar suburban counties with large minority populations such as Florida’s Hillsborough, Virginia’s Henrico, and Ohio’s Franklin…
No Republican presidential nominee has won more than 50.8 percent of the popular vote since 1988. That’s largely because the party has remained almost completely dependent on whites for its support in a rapidly diversifying country. Romney, like John McCain in 2008, relied on whites for nearly 90 percent of his votes in a country with a 40 percent nonwhite population. Romney may have sealed his fate when the words “self-deportation” left his lips during a Florida primary debate. “We are in a position now where we have to—through differences in policy, differences in tone, and differences in candidates—reach out [to minorities] in a way we’ve never reached out before,” says veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres. “Or we will not be successful as a national party.”
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Abe Froman will ensure that every Chicagoan receives their full measure of sausage, though.
john1schn on November 11, 2012 at 10:54 AM
When the Mohammedans are running through America’s streets I WILL join them and seek out the ones who allowed them to run rampant in this nation.
HondaV65 on November 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM
California is the single largest producer of agricultural products in the nation by a large margin. The upper midwest produces most of the nation’s grain. Have you driven through Iowa and Illinois?
Good luck turning Alabama into a breadbasket.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM
And that explains why cries of secession come almost exclusively from Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Secession_Movement#Public_opinion_among_Texas_voters
And almost half of Republicans.
lester on November 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Downstate, my friend.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 10:57 AM
I would be more than happy to give up the “tax subsidies” if the blue states would take the people taking them as well.
john1schn on November 11, 2012 at 10:57 AM
No. How about you distance yourself from Islam and not try to worry about who’s going to hell, then try to legislate preventive measures?
lester on November 11, 2012 at 10:58 AM
If I were a liberal I’d have the government take over all food production and starve all right wingers. As a Che! adherent I know you approve. Think of the drop in ObamaCare costs! You could get rid of the military as well and within no time be immersed in utopia!
This past election has opened my eyes. I too crave utopia where kind and caring bureaucrats look after my every need. Where I want for nothing, and “hard work” is just an unpleasant and infrequent thought. Utopia!
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Besides, blue states are richer. We’ll just have our bronzino, Multipulciano d’Abruzzo, Pont l’Eveque and organic durum wheat pasta flown in from Europe.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Or we can just carry on snarking and pretending we don’t have an image problem that has some small basis in reality. Let’s see where that gets us.
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM
No, white Christians must adapt. Converting to Islam and becoming ferocious, butchering totalitarians is an option.
Also an option is melanin enhancement. This will cause us to be instantly embraced by the left and given free stuff.
I also believe sex change operations for all white christian males would be beneficial. Talk about a super voting bloc! Million of white, Christian transgender males!
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Actually, Alabama would do nicely as a food producing state.
California is rapidly losing its grip on that coveted agrarian mecca they bleat out every so often.
1. Wine isn’t food
2. Cutting off water to the farmers who actually grow your food is el stupido.
The lower midwest is plenty capable of producing (and outproducing) the upper midwest. Texas is capable of huge leaps in agriculture, and has shown to be so in the last 100 years.
I’d love to see what New York grows to sustain their populations in NYC year round. Winter’s a b!tch in that state. They can’t even seem to get disaster relief right for a CAT 1 storm.
john1schn on November 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM
So, you’d be as dumb as a liberal as you are as a conservative?
But have fun with your imaginary friends. I have never actually met anyone who wants to collectivize agriculture, though. In fact, we are strong supporters — through our farmers market yuppie arugula-buying — of a whole generation of small capitalists.
I believe that the more socialist aspects of current ag policy are as strongly supported by Rs and Ds. Ask the Alabama and MIssissippi delegations what they think of cotton and soybean subsidies.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 11:05 AM
We can do that too. I prefer to speed the collapse of the US by giving liberals everything their little hearts desire. Sure I’ll suffer, but my suffering will be lessened by the looks on millions of liberal faces when they finally understand what they’ve done.
Only then will America be rebuilt.
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Alabam has soil that’s crappy for everything but heavily-subsidized and fertilized cotton.
The acreage devoted to wine in California is dwarfed by other agricultural uses. Wine, by the way, is a basic food group.
Ironic of you to whine about California farmer’s lack of access to a federally buillt and maintained irrigation system. At any raet, the affected farmers are, again, a small percentage of totoal production. Not that I am unsympathetic to their plight.
Speaking of which, have you been to Texas? You do know that plants need water?
But, can we declare this conversation officially too silly to be continued? Especially since, as conservatives, Red States would certainly not restrict the trade of food to the Blue States, so everyting would continue just about as it does now.
And, I’m getting hungry — off to the farmer’s market.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 11:11 AM
There you go, sounds like a plan.
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Then nationaliztion of all food production should be easy. THink of all the jobs it’ll create! An operation that big needs hundreds of thousands of efficient, kind and caring bureaucrats.
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 11:12 AM
You seem very keen on this course of action.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Why is it not good enough for you to confine your radical agenda to blue states? Of course, we both know the answer: you seek to control us.
You think you, as a New Yorker, know better for a Texan than a Texan. You think man can steer the climate, so it behooves you exerting control over everyone who drives a car. You think abortion and gay marriage are fundamental rights, regardless of whether a majority of people within a state want it. You think healthcare is a fundamental right, so you degrade the quality for the earners in order to pay for the takers, while you seek to limit how much salt, soda and fast food supposedly free people can eat. You think can steal gratuitous amounts of our time on this Earth in the form of taxation to pay for your own excesses.
I hate you and everything you stand for. We will not comply with your socialist state, no matter how many ballot boxes you stuff or how many destitute new voters you have to import from other countries. This won’t end well.
The Count on November 11, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Funny YOU should note Texas. I live in Texas, and yeah, we need water. We also have access to lots of water and we build desalination plants to get it.
We also have a huge livestock industry, because man cannot live by arugula alone.
Remember what I said, however, at the start of this interesting conversation, that I do not favor a boycott of blue states.
john1schn on November 11, 2012 at 11:27 AM
In November?
LMFAO Farmers markets closed for the year several weeks ago.
When you base your ridicule in a lie you mock yourself patriot.
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Get the white vote up to 70% and we win everywhere. This article hints at what is to come: whites will coalesce around a perceived threat from redistribution craving minorities and illegals.
To end the argument, the Repub party should be organized according to that principle: APPEAL TO WHITES!
What about gay marriage and abortion and what else not? Look at in terms of how these things fit in with the “new” mission: appeal to whites. We know whites like the U.S. as a free enterprise system that respects the constitution. And whites will not want their wealth pillaged by the new taxes (as wealth taxes!) and things like the Obamacare entitlement (which is probably just the tip of the ice berg as far as new entitlements if the minorities get full control). Pay particular attention to unifying as much as possible what the college educated and working class whites want.
Some say, if our mission is “to appeal to whites,” minorities won’t vote for us. They’re not voting for us now as it is. We’ll get 20 to 30% of Hispanics no matter what, amnesty or no amnesty. The Dem party is quickly becoming the party of “appeal to illegals and minorities,” but still whites vote for the Dems. But that’ll change, fewer and fewer whites will vote Dem in the future.
anotherJoe on November 11, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Do you know what piddly little 200k ~ 5 million person “city” ue lives in? Maybe it’s Honolulu, or Sydney.
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Is there some reason I shouldn’t be?
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM
我不给你的狗屁共产党员藏污纳垢
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM
You realize that when you talk about stuff you know nothing about you look petty and obnoxious.
There are at least three markets that I go to regularly that are still open.
Bloomindale, Dupont Circle, and Mt. Pleasant.
Hours and dates are posted on the linked pages. Moron.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 11:51 AM
This guy may not have been that far off.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html
Russ86 on November 11, 2012 at 11:53 AM
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA I was waiting for that. You ghouls are so fking predictable.
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 11:53 AM
I had no idea you were a Stalinist.
Live and learn.
Mid-sized. Not New York or Paris (alas) but definitely urban.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM
How true: “Shocking” in the sense that that nagging cold has been diagnosed as terminal cancer and you’ve got 6 months to live – - if that.
Rod on November 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Waiting for me to prove you wrong? Of course, with you, it’s inevitable.
At any rate, off for real this time. Need anything?
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 11:56 AM
I’m out, going camping. in November. Going by the farmers market for supplies.
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM
But I only want what you want. Destruction of capitalism, complete government control, eventual race war … you know, all the things the democrats have been aiming at for decades.
When I found out I needed TWO permits to walk down the the beach and throw my line out I was estatic. Besides a state salt water license, I discovered I needed to pay NOAA $25 for a federal government license. It was then I realized that Obama has put enough people in place to complete the deed. I cannot feed myself from the sea without state and federal government approval. Isn’t it awesome?
Please write your Congressman and ask them to speed up the process.
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 12:02 PM
You should only be allowed to buy seafood from leftists who operate subsidized year-round farmers markets comrade.
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 12:05 PM
I didn’t realize you were so proficient in Chinese. Frankly I took you for an idiot, to be honest. I imagine you can read this too old buddy:肏你妈!
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Tom, sure you clicked those links reined how stupid you sound, correct? We’re long on apples and pears, cauliflower and cabbage, cider, preserved. And of course, pork, cheese and artisanal bread aren’t bound by season. So, pickings are getting slim, but its still worth making a trip on an unseasonably warm Sunday.
Come around next week: we’ll get you a pork chop that’ll make your life better, cook it with the honeycrisps my buddy down from PA sells.
urban elitist on November 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Know who you are, don’t care. in English…
Thought you left patriot. Not clicking your stupid links. You are so misinformed and maladjusted to the world that I wouldn’t cross the street to
whatever.
Off to the wilderness…
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Btw, Happy Diwali everyone!
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 12:24 PM
I really do love to 肏你妈
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 12:27 PM
How do you fight an image problem when things that we are accused of just aren’t true? How do you look at Gov. Romney’s life time record and determine that he is going to overturn Roe v Wade and set women back fifty years? How do you take an organization like the Tea Party and make it an hotbed of Evangelical racists. Every time the Right disagrees with the Left’s fiscal policies, we are labeled racists. I don’t know how you fight that.
Cindy Munford on November 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM
You cave and pass amnesty.
You cave and vote for Romney in the primary.
astonerii on November 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM
You simply accuse them of the same thing, only we have the proof to back it up. Instead of getting a clue, Republicans continue to allow the left to attack them without fighting back. Simply attack the left for who and what they really are. Sure they’ll be spitting mad and indignant but who cares?
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM
I don’t have an answer either, but I think the first step to finding an answer is recognizing that the issue is real.
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Good combination, but our NC season ended a month and a half or so ago for those. He’s pulling them out of a freezer I assume?
rogerb on November 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM
You can’t control your image when the media is controlled by the left. If we had an objective press we wouldn’t be talking about it. The image problem has been fabricated.
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM
I’m pretty sure that bumping off the media is illegal but I’ll check.
Cindy Munford on November 11, 2012 at 1:17 PM
If it were me, I would start with education. We are destroying the country with the incompetence of the public school system and more money can’t be the answer. Our children are being indoctrinated and not educated. If they can throw any semblance of religion out, than all types of political ideology should be gone also.
Cindy Munford on November 11, 2012 at 1:21 PM
It’s impossible. Any attempt to reform education, you know … give kids a real education would be blasted by the left and the media. We need to stop fighting them. Give them everything they want. Only when people experience the real “liberalism” will they begin to wake up.
People must begin to question what they’ve been taught. Right now they suffer no consequences for voting left … they just get free stuff.
darwin on November 11, 2012 at 1:26 PM
Submission to China instead of Muhhamed.
Schadenfreude on November 11, 2012 at 6:19 PM
Right, it’s all the media’s fault, none of the image problem could possibly have any basis in truth.
Keep telling yourself that.
DarkCurrent on November 11, 2012 at 7:58 PM
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