Originally Posted By: bill
Originally Posted By: Atoler
Originally Posted By: bill

Originally Posted By: Atoler
Originally Posted By: PaschalBD
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The problem we as "americans" have, is that the republican candidates of late have been rinos or too conservative.


When I read this sentence I thought to myself, what candidate was too conservative?


I guess I meant potential candidates as well. My point is, the recipients of our tax dollars are a voting majority. We need a candidate that will draw some of their votes, or completely unify the workers in this country.


Another misconception. Middle and upper class white Americans put Obama in office.


Explain what you mean here? There is a dollar sign attached to the way 49% of the country votes.


Black Americans make up 12% of the population. So while they supported him at a 96% rate , they still didn't have nearly enough votes without 41% of white votes. Particularly telling is that he won 52% of the vote among voters with a $200k annual income or above.

http://www.pewresearch.org/2008/11/05/inside-obamas-sweeping-victory/


I'm not sure how accurate those numbers are, I briefly looked up 2 different sources and they all said different things. I think with most of the stats, people can make up whatever statistic they want to. One source said 95% of blacks, 71% of Mexicans, 73% of Asians voted for Obama, while only 39% of whites voted for him. Between Asians, blacks, and Mexicans, they make up roughly 34% of the population. Now, maybe your numbers are correct, but I have a hard time believing that 39% of total whites voted for him, yet that number jumped to 52% in the upper class arena. If that was the case, then it would entail virtually no middle class americans voting for him, since below $60k a year was in favor of him as well.

The largest "unified" group of voters in this nation, are recipients of government monies. That scares me much more than a stat on upper class whites.