The Washington Post reported Friday at the top of the front page “Whites’ support for Obama eroding.” Jon Cohen and Rosalind Helderman reported “Obama has a deficit of 23 percentage points” right now, behind Romney by 60 percent to 37. The networks have been much fonder of showing how Obama was winning big among blacks and Latinos.
Let’s recall how liberal journalists seized on National Journal’s Ron Brownstein, who wrote on August 27 that the GOP was struggling: “Republican strategists clearly feel the weight of trying to assemble a national majority with so little support among minorities that they must win three in five whites. ‘This is the last time anyone will try to do this,’ one said.” They used this article to suggest the GOP would resort to racist politicking one last time:
A GOP coalition that relies almost entirely on whites could squeeze out one more narrow victory in November. But if Republicans can’t find more effective ways to bridge the priorities of their conservative core and the diversifying Next America, that weight will grow more daunting every year.
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