The moderate-liberal commentator in Washington, D.C. opines: "The percentage of white voters this year dropped to 72% from 74% in
2008. In 1992, white voters made up 87% of the electorate. In every
presidential election since then, their share of the vote has dropped by
between two and four percentage points. This year, 43% of white voters
were over 45, 14% of them over age 65. Mitt Romney won the white vote
59% to 39%, the biggest share for a Republican since 1988 — and it was
still not enough to put him in the White House. He won the white-male
vote by a whopping 27 points. But white men made up only 34% of all
voters. In 1976, by contrast, they were 46%. White women went for Mr.
Romney by a smaller but still considerable margin, 56% to 42%."
He continues his commentary: "These numbers and the persistence of this new Democratic coalition [of Hispanics, blacks, Asians, young whites, and educated white women]
present a threat to the future of the GOP, which is becoming the party
of a declining number of older, white voters geographically centered in
the South and in small towns and rural communities. These factors have now combined to give Democrats the popular-vote victory in five of the last six presidential elections."
Booker Rising response: Let's just hope that white voters don't decide to start bloc voting to the very lopsided extent that Hispanics (71% for Obama) and blacks (93% for Obama) do, or else things could get quite ugly in the United States of America.
Juan Williams Op-Ed: Obama's Daunting Demographic Challenge To The Republican Party
