The 2008 electorate was 74 percent white, 13 percent black, and 9 percent Latino. This week, it was 78, 10, and 8 percent, respectively. That’s a four-point swing in favor of white voters. That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s an extra net 3.6 million white votes. And given whites voted Republican by a 60 to 37 margin, that was 2.2 million votes banked by Republicans in a contest that featured myriad tight races. In addition, the white voters most likely to vote Democratic – the millennials – suffered from depressed turnout.Let me see if I have this down. For the next two years, Republican opposition to Obama’s policies will be racism. In 2012, an Obama victory will be in spite of racism. An Obama defeat will be because of racism. Are we sick of this childishness yet?
Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight
