by Dick Morris
This really isn't news as all too many of us saw it coming. Romney's campaign gurus took the white vote for granted and spent too much time reaching out to those who weren't going to vote for him anyway. When one thinks about it a little over 50% of eligible voters bothered to register and a little over that 50% even bothered to go to the polls! What does that say about us as a nation?
Whites Stayed Home and Re-Elected Obama | Right Wing NewsNow that all the data is in, the fundamental reason for Mitt Romneys defeat is apparent, if largely unreported. It is not just that blacks, Latinos and single women showed up in record numbers at the polls. Its that whites didnt. The final numbers suggest that 91.6 million votes were cast by whites seven million less than the 98.6 million cast in 2008! Meanwhile, 16.6 million blacks voted, 300,000 more than in 2008 and 11 million Latinos voted, 1.7 million more votes than were cast by Hispanics in 2008. We lost ...more at
This really isn't news as all too many of us saw it coming. Romney's campaign gurus took the white vote for granted and spent too much time reaching out to those who weren't going to vote for him anyway. When one thinks about it a little over 50% of eligible voters bothered to register and a little over that 50% even bothered to go to the polls! What does that say about us as a nation?