Comments on: Obama Losing Whites, Winning the Election?

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:02:52 +0000

So that's why the Republicans have a lock on the white vote and the Democrats haven't carried the white vote since LBJ. It's really nothing to be proud of, you know.

Maybe we don't like communists and abortionists, maybe?

By: Maggie's Farm

Maggie's Farm — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:32:05 +0000

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By: James

James — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:04:07 +0000

Please show me how you construe my recitation of historical fact as "an argument that there aren't any racist democrats." I said nothing of the kind.

By: just me

just me — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:38:06 +0000

James are you really making the argument that there aren't any racist democrats?

By: MM

MM — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:37:28 +0000

In years whites will not be the majority but hispanics will have assimiliated and eventually will be considered "white"...same as jewish and italians did...as for republicans being racist...once again liberals love screaming racist...umm....are any blacks not voting for Obama...so please dont scream racism...if oj simpson were running for president blacks would vote for him....

Yes. The Al Sharpton candidacy clearly proved that.

By: James

James — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:13:11 +0000

Who's "screaming racism"? I'm just reminding Mr Joyner of historical fact. Where am I wrong? You dispute the fact that the racist Southern Democrats left the Democratic Party for Wallace, and then settled into the welcoming arms of the Republican Party? That's pretty indisputable to all but the most willingly ignorant and deliberately obtuse.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:40 +0000

In years whites will not be the majority but hispanics will have assimiliated and eventually will be considered "white"...same as jewish and italians did...as for republicans being racist...once again liberals love screaming racist...umm....are any blacks not voting for Obama...so please dont scream racism...if oj simpson were running for president blacks would vote for him....

By: Bandit

Bandit — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:21:23 +0000

It's always amazing how liberals spend so much time looking for racism and racists when all they need to do is look in the mirror. You'll look at about every instance of racebaiting in this or any other campaign and see it done by the Obama side.

By: James

James — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:07:46 +0000

Although the majority of whites are not racist, a significant number of whites are racist, and most of those have settled in with the Republican Party, which has welcomed them with open arms. The Democrats drove the white racists out of their party when LBJ guided the Civil Rights Act on 1964 and the Voting Rights though Congress. The racist southern Democrats deserted over to Wallace, and Nixon and then Reagan made a home for them among Republicans. Since Nixon, the Republicans have pandered to the racist elements of their party, and they have seen no reason to either change or leave. So that's why the Republicans have a lock on the white vote and the Democrats haven't carried the white vote since LBJ. It's really nothing to be proud of, you know.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:18:55 +0000

I think LBJ may have been the last Democratic president to win a majority of the white vote. Anyway, white folks need to prepare themselves for the browning of American, as they will be in the minority in 2042 [Source]. Then “win whites and lose the presidency” will be met with a big "Duh."