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(11,646 posts)ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)One flaw though, Chris Rock should have used that one Miami televison interview where Mitt had a worse spray Tan than Snooki!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/mitt-romney-dyed-face-brown-fake-tan-univision_n_1900707.html
Yeah...THAT ONE!
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)the most hysterical moment of the campaign - plus DU helped break the "tan-gate" story!
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)Obama does just fine among white voters in every other part of the country.
Like his approval rating, he just does so poorly in one part of the country, it drags down the number nationally.
Obama will win the majority of whites in the northeast. He will win the majority of the whites on the west coast.
And as has been pointed out continuously he is running very well among working class whites in the midwest.
Obama does not have a white voter problem. He as a white southern voter problem. I wish people would get this straight.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)side!
Virginia is in play
North Carolina is in play.
And mark this down and tuck away this little nugget for 2016.
In 2008, Barack Obama received 22% of the white vote in South Carolina.
While this might seem low, it is actually a good number for the white vote in a deep southern state. This was a surprise on election night. Everyone believes GA will be the next southern state to fall. And Arizona is already being eyed in 2016. But with a huge AF turnout, and a slight uptick on that 22% number in 2008, South Carolina could be a surprise state for the Dems in 4-8 years.
Remember, you heard that here first!
Doc Holliday
(719 posts)and hoped to dare that we could do the same here in Texas.
"We gather our pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean...we must do so with serene minds."
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)The truth is the demographics are already there.
The problem is hispanics don't vote.
In 2008 hispanics were 16% of the population. But just 8-9% of the vote. This year, a full 4 years later, the Dems are doing everything they can just to get the hispanics to 10%!!!!! That's how far off the vote is based on population. The hispanic vote is a real sleeping giant. But as long as it just "sleeps" its not going to do progressives any good.
By comparison, African Americans were 12.8 percent of the population in 2008. But where 13% of voters on election day. If hispanics could follow suit and join progressive whites, we would have a dominate blue majority for a generation to come.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)could be the first two states to secede from the Confederacy.
a fact about the Old Confederacy. Grant defeated Lee in Virginia and Sherman defeated Johnston in North Carolina. That spelled doom for the Confederacy. Obama may win both states. If North Carolina falls in Obama's column on election day, it is all over.
John2
(2,730 posts)is repeated in History. He is trying to invade Pennsylvania.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)the bulk of its population growth has been from L.A.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)Not just southern states.
I should have added Montana to that list too.
karmaqueen
(714 posts)I saw this last night on Jimmy and thought it was so funny! I was not sure how to share it here, glad you did
outrageously funny...
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)skeewee08
(1,983 posts)Thanks for the laugh...
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)the Democratic party and/or progressives, Green party, i.e. do have more humor. We are just funny as hell - LOL
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)...dresses all the boys in blue plaid shirts!!!! Scary!
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)Kind of like the Scotts and Irish having different plaid designs to identify the clan. Not that Klan.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)That video is all "white" with me.
Chris Rock the Vote - you are so funny thanks for the laughs.
BouzoukiKing
(163 posts)...for Kimmel & Rock.
GETTINGTIRED
(330 posts)The laugh
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)I loved the part about PBO going into black neighborhoods to organize black folk because that is so true.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)yodermon
(6,143 posts)where the jury is asked to imagine that the little girl who was raped was white.
I've imagined using the same strategy on white voters who might otherwise lean towards the Democrat but just can't vote for Obama.. I want to say "well just take all his positions and now imagine that he's White".
(Only imagined it, never tried it.)
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)But why not he's 50% or some such white and we all know it, and he was raised by white people ... such an elephant in the racial living room ...