G
Guns Guns Guns
Guest
Since 1972, white men have voted roughly 60-40 percent in favor of the Republican in presidential elections.
The exception was 1976, when Democratic Southerner Jimmy Carter attracted 48 percent of the white male vote.
Then In 2008, Obama surpassed Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry’s numbers, winning 41 percent of the white male vote nationally. But by 2010, white male support had shrunk back to 37 percent - a precarious landing spot for the president.
Now, things could be shifting again.
Already struggling to connect with average votes of all stripes because of his wealth and social station, Romney faces an additional hurdle with middle-class men in the secretly recorded video at a Florida fundraiser where he seems to be assailing the working class as a deadbeats and moochers.
http://www.politico.com/playbook/0912/playbook1931.html?hp=l6
The exception was 1976, when Democratic Southerner Jimmy Carter attracted 48 percent of the white male vote.
Then In 2008, Obama surpassed Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry’s numbers, winning 41 percent of the white male vote nationally. But by 2010, white male support had shrunk back to 37 percent - a precarious landing spot for the president.
Now, things could be shifting again.
Already struggling to connect with average votes of all stripes because of his wealth and social station, Romney faces an additional hurdle with middle-class men in the secretly recorded video at a Florida fundraiser where he seems to be assailing the working class as a deadbeats and moochers.
http://www.politico.com/playbook/0912/playbook1931.html?hp=l6