GOP White Voter Ratio Actually At 30 Year Lows

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 06/02/2009 - 2:25pm

I talked about a Gallup poll yesterday that showed only 11% of GOP voters were non-whites.

But after reading some of the comments on that post, I felt the need to amend those thoughts.

Basically, the GOP has been VERY white for a while and are getting less so.

But not enough to really make a difference.

From FiveThirtyEight …first the GOP’s demos…

88 percent of George W.

Bush’s voters in 2004, and 91 percent of...


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