Comments on: What the election map would have looked like if only white men could vote

By: Monkey_pants

Monkey_pants — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:22:00 +0000

There’s a portion of people who sincerely believe that Coulter is a canny liberal plant whose purpose it to lay bare the rabid bigotry of the Republican right.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:06:00 +0000

Interesting…”2/3rds” is quite close to “3/5ths”.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:56:00 +0000

Where’s the stereotyping? What part of this isn’t just a statement of fact?

By: benher

benher — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Hurts to look at the ol’ data. Ow.
But once again, this whitish guy did his part and stayed at home eating Doritos.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:00 +0000

Good point, which also perhaps answers some of the questions about why so many Americans are in jail.

By: Kramski

Kramski — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:53:00 +0000

Holly… no, I really don’t. I am not even a citizen of your country, so I have no personal stake in the voting turnout. But if there is such a clear, noticeable racial divide between voters, it does imply that a) one party (or both) makes policies that benefit only a certain group and repells the other and/or b) that there is a problem with racism.

I don’t know why you accuse me of hubris. I am just pointing out that the marginal difference was not so marginal at all.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:00:00 +0000

This map doesn’t surprise me, what surprises me is that a whole 1 in 8 of Romney’s voters wasn’t white.

By: Heevee Lister

Heevee Lister — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:24:00 +0000

I used to say that too. Then I realized that what I really want back isn’t that squeaky little crook. It’s the political climate of 1968, when anything and everything seemed possible, before Hunter S Thompson’s wave “finally broke and rolled back.”

By: Holly Street Musick

Holly Street Musick — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:04:00 +0000

You make the assumption, full of hubris, that “all other” were somehow right. Statistically, 62% is a lot more near “marginal” than the 98% African-American vote enjoyed by Mr. Obama.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:08:00 +0000

Don’t let us stop you.

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:31:00 +0000

Can’t resist: If you’re rich then I’m single :-) (but sadly, not living in CA or anywhere near there)

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:27:00 +0000

I rather suspect a far larger percentage of the US is racist than that. You don’t think blacks hate Asians, Mexicans hate Haitians, Koreans hate Vietnamese, … ad semi-infinitum? And BTW, you can be racist but not use that as your reason for voting one way or the other. I would be interested in seeing the “White male” vote broken out by income level and education level as well, for examples.

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:23:00 +0000

Yeah, and now we want Nixon back. He’s a heckuva lot more left-wing than Obama. (“we” being a representative crowd of one MA resident here :-) )

By: Heather Cristofaro

Heather Cristofaro — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:24:00 +0000

I saw this more as a history lesson— of how important it was to our democracy to give women and minorities the right to vote. Such a huge portion of the population now have a voice…

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:18:00 +0000

If you think that the US is more racist, you must not read the international news. Some of the crap that comes out of the mouths of European politicians is shocking.

By: mikey666

mikey666 — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:44:00 +0000

So lets chart black females, puerto ricans, or marxist lesbians.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:37:00 +0000

Anti-abortion isn’t a GOP view

Since it’s in their platform, your entire premise is unsupported.

By: Origami_Isopod

Origami_Isopod — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:16:00 +0000

“….you guys are blessed with a society so far advanced over many, many nations – so blessed that you should be kissing the ground you stand on and weeping.”

Dear Muslimah…

By: Origami_Isopod

Origami_Isopod — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:14:00 +0000

TEH POOR WHITE MENZ, THEY’RE SO OPPRESSED AND DEMONIZED!!!

By: Origami_Isopod

Origami_Isopod — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:11:00 +0000

“Does the author of this graphic honestly believe that 48% of the country is racist?”

LOL. Racism is totes over because we have a black president, right?

By: Richard Wolff

Richard Wolff — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:45:00 +0000

As a white male i must ask how much people actual care that “insert here” with internet is a white male?

By: Shinkuhadoken

Shinkuhadoken — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:28:00 +0000

For the sake of argument, there is some evidence to suggest that breaking down statistics on racial lines itself creates racial stereotyping. For example, the way the United States breaks down crime statistics based on the color of your skin reinforces a prejudice that blacks are more prone to crime and essentially becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just like measuring the voltage in a circuit changes the voltage in the circuit, creating racially significant reports further enhances racial presumptions.

By: dbergen

dbergen — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:45:00 +0000

Uh, dude, look up “stereotyping” in the dictionary, this ain’t that.

By: urpBurp

urpBurp — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:04:00 +0000

Wow… great to see how our race relations in America have progressed so far. Reading these comments have filled me with such hope for the future…

I once heard a great man say,

“…I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

I have a dream today!…”

But still people will read this and come away convinced that it supports their own personal racist viewpoints…

Why won’t we ever listen?

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:47:00 +0000

Prius versus Pickup vote breakdown would be interesting, since you can tell a lot about a person by what car they drive – just like you can by their race.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:45:00 +0000

As a woman from Maine, I gotta say I love my Maine men!

By: sarahnocal

sarahnocal — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:44:00 +0000

The individual county demographics could have been used.

By: Robert Drop

Robert Drop — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:22:00 +0000

See the recent BB article on how recent the Evangelical position on abortion really is (and it’s the evangelicals who are making abortion a political issue, far more than the Catholics who vote for Democrats with some consistency). So yeah, it’s a GOP issue first and foremost, not a religious one.

By: Robert Drop

Robert Drop — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:15:00 +0000

I find his defensiveness… interesting.

By: silkox

silkox — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:06:00 +0000

I’d like an “I’m a White Male Obama Voter” bumper sticker to put over my “ObamaCares” bumper sticker.