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WhaTHellsgoingonhere

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7. Melissa Harris Perry's show outs white women

Reply to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 12:27 PM

Nov 2012

Melissa's guest (African-American woman; I don't know her name) said you can't treat women as a single voting block, you have to break them out by race, too. And white women went for Romney over Obama. (Melissa confirmed.)

Liz Winstead looks shell shocked. Why wouldn't she?

Seriously, who knew???

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Wait, What?!! "What’s Up with White Women?" (= title of article) [View all] WhaTHellsgoingonhere Nov 2012 OP

SOME white women, not all. MichiganVote Nov 2012 #1

I (white guy) voted for Obama twice, BUT... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Nov 2012 #3

His "I am a small business owner" commerical HockeyMom Nov 2012 #2

I'm not sure about women in other states, AlGoreRhythms Nov 2012 #4

there are white women out there that have bought into the conservative lie liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #5

He NEVER appealed to this white woman! luv_mykatz Nov 2012 #6

Melissa Harris Perry's show outs white women WhaTHellsgoingonhere Nov 2012 #7

Racism. BumRushDaShow Nov 2012 #8

race trumps gender, science, economics, domestic and foregin policy, and honesty WhaTHellsgoingonhere Nov 2012 #9

Are these the married white women or the single white women? justiceischeap Nov 2012 #10

No, you don't. WhaTHellsgoingonhere Nov 2012 #11

White women with no college degrees (which probably skews to being older too) JVS Nov 2012 #12

Yes, if you want to break white women into smaller voting blocks... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Nov 2012 #13

I pointed that out because the reason that people are surprised by the info is that it's a... JVS Nov 2012 #15

THIS white woman voted for the President nt meow2u3 Nov 2012 #14

me too and I'm a stay at home mom liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #16