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Related: About this forum"Rove counting on ‘white Democrats’ to vote for Romney" by David Edwards at the Raw Story
Rove counting on white Democrats to vote for RomneyBy David Edwards at the Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/28/rove-counting-on-white-democrats-to-vote-for-romney/#.UD0PgwNcREE.reddit
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During a discussion with Politicos Mike Allen on Monday, Rove made it clear that politics had actually become more racialized since the country elected its first black president.
Obama has no chance of carrying Indiana, the Fox News contributor explained. I was having dinner with [Indiana Gov.] Mitch Daniels this spring, and I said, Mitch, is there a white Democrat south of Indianapolis whos supporting Obama whos not a college professor in Bloomington? And he stopped for a minute over his green beans and says, Not that I can think of.
You know, Indianas gone, he insisted, adding that North Carolina is also gone because New South independents which The Atlantics James Bennett says is code for white independents and racial moderates, economic conservatives, who in 2008 said this would be really good for our country, lets put the issue of race behind us, but now they are saying we did the right thing and the experiment failed.
National Journals Ron Brownstein has argued that the Romney campaign is focusing on capturing at least 61 percent of white voters to give them a slim majority. Obama, however, needs 80 percent of minorities and 40 percent of whites to stay in office.
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"Rove counting on ‘white Democrats’ to vote for Romney" by David Edwards at the Raw Story (Original Post)
applegrove
Aug 2012
OP
Thrill
(19,178 posts)1. You knew he was behind
the welfare strategy
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)2. White democrats are NOT going to vote for Romney
even if he paid them
MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)3. I know quite a few...
I know quite a few white Democrats in central and southern Indiana who will not, under any circumstances, be voting for Rmoney.
But Rove may have a point. This part of the country sucks. Mean, conservative, and religious.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)4. I can see his math hasn't improved in the last four years. n/t
Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)5. Indiana went to Obama in 2008 because the president that Rove worked for...
Was the biggest failure since Herbert Hoover. It's a solidly red state and was never seriously part of the President's winning strategy in 2012 or even really 2008 for that matter.