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(34,648 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:29 AM Jun 2014

GOP’S BIGGEST 2016 PROBLEM: CLINTON’S NUMBERS AMONG WHITE VOTERS [View all]

By Lloyd Green
06/09/2014

Culture will likely shape the 2016 presidential elections, and this is bad news for the Republican Party. Recent polls show Hillary Clinton running well among white voters overall, showing real strength among white non-evangelical Protestants, and running competitively among white Catholics. Trailing only among evangelicals, Clinton is poised to move beyond the upstairs-downstairs coalition that brought Barack Obama to the White House, and that continues to characterize his policies and presidency to this day.

On multiple levels Clinton is not Obama, and GOP swipes at Clinton over her age and health appear to have gained less traction among voters than digs leveled at the President over his birth certificate and religion. Instead of faltering, Clinton is building upon her bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination, when she stitched together wins in industrial and large states by winning a majority of white voters.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/09/gop-s-biggest-2016-problem-clinton-s-numbers-among-white-voters.html

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GOP’S BIGGEST 2016 PROBLEM: CLINTON’S NUMBERS AMONG WHITE VOTERS [View all] bravenak Jun 2014 OP

If Hillary runs, yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #1

I think so too. bravenak Jun 2014 #2

I won't go that far yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #3

I think it will be too difficult to pull the country rightward again. bravenak Jun 2014 #4

I don't think Socially they will win yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #5

Maybe. bravenak Jun 2014 #7

I could see a competitive T.Roosevelt/Lafollete type GOP Ex Lurker Jun 2014 #11

why? Trajan Jun 2014 #26

I'm not one for labels Ex Lurker Jun 2014 #63

Two words Va Lefty Jun 2014 #48

They are done with that soon. bravenak Jun 2014 #49

Castro 2020. L0oniX Jun 2014 #22

We should just cancel the elections and swear in Clinton. It would save a lot of time and money. morningfog Jun 2014 #6

LOL!! bravenak Jun 2014 #8

Fine with me. TheCowsCameHome Jun 2014 #15

Sounds good to me. Can you make it happen? nt. NCTraveler Jun 2014 #33

If Clinton runs NewJeffCT Jun 2014 #9

Texas?!? bravenak Jun 2014 #10

How's Hillary polling among wounded war veterans? MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #12

What it do Manny! bravenak Jun 2014 #13

Do some research and get back to us. Thanks. nt. NCTraveler Jun 2014 #34

She polls pretty well with both groups. Beacool Jun 2014 #51

Do we really care what white people think? AngryAmish Jun 2014 #14

Maybe because 5 times more whites vote than any other race? pipoman Jun 2014 #16

All-caps, no less. WorseBeforeBetter Jun 2014 #21

We care because we keep losing them in every national election. Beacool Jun 2014 #52

Not sure where all of this certainty comes from. pipoman Jun 2014 #17

They looked at recent polls. bravenak Jun 2014 #18

Wonder why Thespian2 Jun 2014 #19

Agreed pipoman Jun 2014 #20

Amen.....n/t dotymed Jun 2014 #25

Because, other than the far Left, no one else is clamoring for Sanders. Beacool Jun 2014 #53

In a world on the right track... SomethingFishy Jun 2014 #65

Castro/Warren 2016 L0oniX Jun 2014 #23

Warren/Castro truebluegreen Jun 2014 #24

Either Warren Castro combo would be fine. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #28

I'll swing with that. Castro would cinch the Hispanic vote and Warren would L0oniX Jun 2014 #30

Totally agree on Sanders--Senate Majority Leader? truebluegreen Jun 2014 #39

Of course Hillary will do better among white voters. Drunken Irishman Jun 2014 #27

Exactamundo. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #29

There was a very telling map from 2008... Drunken Irishman Jun 2014 #31

and West Virignia 2012 Primary , 40 percent of Dems vote for Inmate over Obama JI7 Jun 2014 #61

That's almost like saying Dem racists will vote for her ain't it? L0oniX Jun 2014 #32

Look at the map in reply 31. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #37

yeah, democratic Racists do vote for her and many other white Democrats JI7 Jun 2014 #58

I was thinking the same thing. bravenak Jun 2014 #36

Heh. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #38

I sure don't. bravenak Jun 2014 #42

She didn't vote for Reagan in 1980 or 1984 JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #35

I know he did. bravenak Jun 2014 #41

Me too JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #43

They teamed up with the Kochs to open up College Republican groups on Black campuses. bravenak Jun 2014 #45

I agree brave JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #46

You are scaring me. bravenak Jun 2014 #47

a lot of times these things are meant to appeal to moderate whites JI7 Jun 2014 #60

Good point. I don't trust former repubs to lead ecstatic Jun 2014 #62

How times have changed. I remember in 2008 when the Repubs muntrv Jun 2014 #40

and you will see why......those racists down South.....they hate women even more than Black men! VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #44

Wow, what a dilemma for the Left. Beacool Jun 2014 #50

I hope we can pull together behind her if she's the canidate. bravenak Jun 2014 #54

I'm just tired of the bashing 24/7. Beacool Jun 2014 #55

You are right. bravenak Jun 2014 #56

Particularly one that would probably have the best chance of winning in 2016. Beacool Jun 2014 #57

Hopefully, she'll stick to her corporate entertainment gig and forget running for chump change. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #59

As a Clinton supporter, this pleases me; but there's a long way to go Algernon Moncrieff Jun 2014 #64