… Exit polls show that married voters chose Mitt Romney over Barack Obama by a significant margin of 56 percent to 42 percent. But Romney lost voters unmarried voters by an even wider margin (35 percent vs. 62 percent). This marriage gap is nothing new: married folks have trended Republican […] Read more »
What’s Up with White Women in 2012? Nothing new!
… What’s up with white women? Absolutely nothing. White women have not reversed or changed course. In 2012 and the two elections before that, white women voted about the same way they’ve been voting since the 1970s: almost always for the Republican Presidential candidate. Surprise that white women are doing […] Read more »
RNC report suggests other reasons why Romney lost
While Mitt Romney has attributed his defeat, in part, to “gifts” President Obama was able to shower on key constituencies, a Republican National Committee report on the election points to other reasons — like changing demographics, Hurricane Sandy, George W. Bush, and the failure to win over the middle class. […] Read more »
The GOP Can’t Fall for the False ‘Center v. Right’ Debate
… The glaring truth we Republicans have to face following this election is that there are simply not enough of us anymore. … The solution to these problems is not for the party to pack up its tent and move it a few feet to the left or the right […] Read more »
The GOP’s Challenge Extends Beyond Hispanics and Immigration Reform
… The GOP will have miscalculated the breadth of their challenge if they adopt immigration reform as their one-plank plan for recapturing the White House in 2016. The numbers illustrate the folly of relying too much on a Latino turnaround to produce a Republican victory. Obama leads the national popular […] Read more »
Gay Vote Proved a Boon for Obama
While President Obama’s lopsided support among Latino and other minority voters has been a focus of postelection analysis, the overwhelming support he received from another growing demographic group — Americans who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual — has received much less attention. But the backing Mr. Obama received from […] Read more »