Thursday, November 06, 2008

The Republicans: a White People's Party

My crude math indicates that 96% of the Republican vote came from whites. That makes the Republicans a white people's party. That's not the same as being THE white people's party. Making up almost 75% of the population, whites were also 64% of Obama's vote. But Obama's support came from a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition. McCain relied almost entirely on the white vote.

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