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White Men Can’t Jump?

Posted by ROBERT STEIN in Politics, Society.
Feb 7th, 2008 | Comments

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are bringing to the fore the neglected demographic in more than half a century of empowerment of minorities.

In trying to explain why the surge for Obama failed to become a tidal wave on Super Tuesday, pundits are honing in on the behavior of the largest silent segment of society–white men.

In parsing the results, Adam Nagourney of the New York Times concludes that 2008 has “cleaved the party neatly in two: the Clinton Democrats and the Obama Democrats. Age, race and gender have become the dividing lines; nothing comes close to mattering as much.

“The Obama Democratic Party is made up of younger voters (under 44), blacks, white men (to a more limited extent) and independents…The Clinton Democratic Party is the party of women, older voters, Hispanics and also some white men.”

From this point of view, of all the demographic armies marching in lockstep, only white men have failed to jump into the ranks on one side or another and stay there.

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superdestroyer

I think if you study elections from the local level to the state level, whites are the vast majority of swing voters. Blacks, Hispanics, and to a lesser extent Asians, voting patterns are much easier to predict than whites. In 2004, when both Kerry and Bush were criss crossing Ohio, they were working to turnout their base and to affect the white voters who were the swing voters.

DLS

White males don't get an identity among the lib-Dem identity politics, other than to constitute the Evil Other and object of PC wrath when "needed."

pacatrue

Dang, I'm a lib-Dem and I apparently label myself Evil Other! Crap, I must be confused.

DLS

It's okay, Pacatrue, so long as you vote the party line and if the party's left wing gets noisy, admit Guilt for being an Evil White Male, Systematic Dominator-Oppressor, Incorporated (to help the members of Perpetual Victimhood, Incorporated).

Lib-Dem? You're an A C C E P T A B L E white male. It's like Saudi Arabia in the first Gulf War, solving the problem of women in the military driving vehicles[gasp]: "Female military members are officially not women while operating military vehicles."

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