The Democrat Party's White Voter Problem
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Hardly a week goes by without some Democratic
Party hack putting finger to iPad and swiping out a
screed about the Republican Party’s problem with
women or minorities.
This time it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz with
“The GOP’s Woman Problem”. Schultz claims that the
Republican Party was “rejected again by a bloc of
voters that make up more than half of the
electorate”. That claim is as real as Schultz’s hair
color. The only bloc that rejected Romney was the
same bloc that rejected Hillary; the bloc of
minority voters who came out in force for Obama.
And unless Hillary Clinton also had a “woman
problem” they didn’t do it over gender.
For example in the South Carolina Democratic
primary, Obama beat Hillary among women by 54 to 30.
That’s a much bigger split than the one between
Obama and Romney among women. While Hillary Clinton
beat Obama among white voters, Obama won 78 percent
of the black vote.
There was no gender gap. There was a racial gap.
Throughout her campaign, Hillary Clinton
consistently won the votes of white women in large
numbers and lost the votes of women who said that
their gender was not important. Obama won the female
vote by his largest margins in southern states
because he wasn’t really winning by gender, he was
benefiting from a large turnout of black women.
Obama won the female vote in Georgia by 32%, but
Hillary won 62% of the white female vote. Obama
however had won 87% of the black female vote. In
Ohio, Hillary and Obama had nearly the same split,
but Hillary won the female vote in Ohio by 16%
because the racial makeup of the voters was
different.
In 2012, Romney won 53% of the white female vote and
3% of the black female vote in Ohio. He didn’t lose
women. He lost the same “bloc of voters” that had
rejected Hillary, not over gender, but over race.
The Republican Party doesn’t have a “woman problem”.
Romney won the votes of white women in every age
group; including young women. And Obama lost white
women as he did all white voters.
He lost white voters by 59% to 39%. He lost white
voters of every age and gender. His loss among white
voters was completely unprecedented for any winner
of a presidential election.
The GOP doesn’t have a “woman problem”, but the
Democrats have a “white woman problem” and a “white
man problem”.
The articles about the GOP’s problem with minority
voters blame the Republican Party for alienating
minority voters. But shouldn’t the Democratic Party
be held accountable for alienating white voters?
This is about more than just numbers.
The Democratic Party’s poor performance among white
voters is leading it to engage in some very
questionable behavior. If Obama and his party
weren’t polling so poorly among white voters, it’s
doubtful that the Democrats would be nakedly
exploiting racial tensions in Ferguson in the hopes
of turning out black voters for the midterm
elections.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s a New York
Times article which describes how the Democrats are
hoping to retain control of the Senate “as they urge
black voters to channel their anger by voting
Democratic in the midterm elections”.
A race riot at the polls isn’t the political
strategy of a legitimate party, but the Democrats
are legitimately panicking because they have lost
white voters.
Obama’s approval rating among young white voters, a
group that came out for him in 2008, was at 28
percent. 58 percent of them would like to recall him
from office. His approval ratings among the white
working class are so catastrophic that he might as
well be Walter Mondale.
So Obama is hitting the Rust Belt even while
Democrats running for reelection avoid him like the
Ebola virus. His fallback strategy is racism and
more racism. Everything from Ferguson to the border
crisis was set up to push his minority voting base
into voting in the midterm elections.
The migrants crowded into gyms and the burned out
stores in Ferguson are both the products of a
criminally corrupt and racially divisive election
strategy. But no amount of race riots or refugee
mobs can save the Democratic Party from dealing with
its white voter problem.
Instead of the GOP being ordered to change its
policies to appeal to minority voters, maybe it’s
time that the Democrats changed their policies to
appeal to white voters.
It wouldn’t be that hard.
The Democrats have won white voters before. But then
they got lazy and decided that it would be easier to
depend on racial voting blocs. The blocs worked for
Obama, but they didn’t work out too well for them in
Congress. Now the Democrats are making a last ditch
effort to hold on to the Senate using an insulting
and racist campaign that has already cost both black
and white lives.
To win over white voters, the Democrats have to stop
freeing drug dealers while banning guns. Instead
they have to stop fighting the 2nd Amendment and
start arresting drug dealers. They have to stop
pushing higher taxes and uncontrolled spending and
start rebuilding the economy with jobs and tax cuts.
They have to let go of ObamaCare and stop pushing
socialized medicine and socialized everything.
White voters have less faith in government. They
believe that the country is on the wrong track. They
aren’t committed Republicans, but they are deeply
skeptical of a deeply racist Democratic Party that
no longer speaks to their needs and values. The
Democratic Party’s response to its loss of support
among white voters has been to accuse them of
racism. In the same New Yorker interview in which
Obama claimed that ISIS was a JV team, he blamed
racism for his poor approval ratings among white
voters. Both claims were delusional and wrong.
White voters did not belatedly become racist. The
Democratic Party stopped listening to them and went
down a racist rabbit hole trying to defend an
administration where Al Sharpton and Eric Holder are
dictating a national conversation on race. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz is right. One party in 2012 was
“rejected again by a bloc of voters that make up
more than half of the electorate”.
That party was the Democratic Party.
It’s time to ask whether a party that has lost the
support of the majority of the country has any place
running the country.