Poll: Whites pessimistic on economy

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 2/22/11 6:47 AM EST Updated: 2/22/11 11:57 AM EST

The prolonged economic downturn has made white Americans — especially those without a college degree — more pessimistic than blacks and Hispanics and has driven them toward the Republican Party, a survey has found.

Half of so-called non-college whites identified themselves as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents, including 42 percent who call themselves conservatives, according to data released Tuesday from a poll conducted by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.

Whites surveyed in the poll were generally more negative than blacks and Hispanics about their own economic prospects and those for the country, and less-educated whites were the most negative. President Barack Obama struggled to capture the non-college white vote in 2008, with then-Sen. Hillary Clinton beating him by a 2-to-1 margin among that demographic in the Democratic primaries. Republican Sen. John McCain won 58 percent of the non-college white vote in 2008, while Obama got the support of 40 percent of the demographic.

Sixty-eight percent of blacks and 46 percent of Hispanics said Democrats understand Americans’ economic problems better than Republicans, while 27 percent of whites said the same. Whites, though, are more positive about the GOP, with 38 percent of those surveyed saying Republicans feel Americans’ financial pain better than Democrats. Just 8 percent of blacks and 19 percent of Hispanics said the same.

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I have one thing to say
WAAAAAAAHHHH!

Many of these folks were happy with the way things were back when others were suffering, but now when they get shafted by their bosses, they whine!