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TCJ70

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8. It should be encouraging

Reply to bearsfootball516 (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 02:39 PM

Nov 2017

The shift in the white vote is part of what helped push Dems over the edge. Without that things would look quite different. Granted the provided chart isn't complete since there's still about 11% unaccounted for in it...but the swing there is quite encouraging.

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Virginia Statewide Election vote by gender and race. [View all] ehrnst Nov 2017 OP

Ditto in NJ JustAnotherGen Nov 2017 #1

As a white male...this is embarrassing bearsfootball516 Nov 2017 #2

Seriously. sofa king Nov 2017 #7

It should be encouraging TCJ70 Nov 2017 #8

Wow. White women STILL went for gillaspie Takket Nov 2017 #3

Women who draw their identity and power from the men they align with (particularly young women) will ehrnst Nov 2017 #4

41% of white women in VA voted for Clinton! unc70 Nov 2017 #5

It was way worse in 2004 and 2008 ehrnst Nov 2017 #6