quote:Originally posted by SalesServiceGuy:
Republican senator Lindsey Graham’s remark that there weren’t enough “angry white guys” to bring Republicans to power seemed prophetic in the light of President Barack Obama’s victory.
A decline in the number of white voters and a surge in voters from ethnic minorities and women helped Obama on election night. Ohio, one of the key battleground states, was captured in part through a rise in turnout among African-Americans, who voted overwhelmingly for Obama.
Back in August, Graham had said: “The demographics race we’re losing badly. We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
This year is likely to be the first in recent history when the majority of babies born in the U.S. are born to families from an “ethnic minority” background. That demographic shift is already being felt at polling stations – 72 percent of those who cast their vote this year were white, down from 74 percent in 2008, according to exit polls by the Associated Press.
The Republican Party has tried to make the point that it is not just the party of white voters, via high-profile speeches at the GOP convention from Republicans of an ethnic minority background, but early signs are that it has failed to convert voters.
I would agree that the republican party failed to win over some minority groups. The answer is not to change the platform, but to continue to reach out to those groups. The values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not values that are only held by white males.
You may want to check on the exit polling with women. I read that married women went for Romney.
It is clear that Obama's pandering worked. We have the bail out of the UAW that bought Ohio and Michigan, the executive order fiat of the dream act (which the democrats would not pass) to buy the hispanic vote effecting florida and Colordo, and the whole discussion of how birth control should be paid for by health insurance companies and then there is the whole I am now for sames sex marriage "evolution" of Obama. He said and did what he needed to do to get re-elected. That is a great way to run a campaign, but not the qualities of a leader.