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Obama received more white votes than Mondale, Carter, and McGovern in 2012
Topic Started: Nov 11 2013, 10:57 PM (254 Views)
Archaicwisdom

And the same percentage of white votes as Clinton.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/08/pr esident-obama-and-the-white-vo te-no-problem/
Edited by Archaicwisdom, Nov 11 2013, 10:58 PM.
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Nov 11 2013, 10:57 PM
And the same percentage of white votes as Clinton.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/08/pr esident-obama-and-the-white-vo te-no-problem/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/08/president-obama-and-the-white-vote-no-problem/[/url]

You're being manipulated with stats. This is very common.
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Obama’s 39 percent showing among white voters matched the percentage that Bill Clinton received in 1992 — albeit it in a competitive three-way race — and exceeded the percentage of the white vote earned by Walter Mondale in 1984, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George McGovern in 1972.

And, Obama’s showing among white voters mattered less than did Mondale’s or Carter’s because the white vote accounted for significantly less of the overall electorate in 2012 than it did in either 1984 or 1980. In fact, the white vote as a percentage of the overall electorate has declined in every election since 1992.


Total votes cast:
1972 77,625
1976 81,603
1980 86,497
1984 92,655
1988 91,587
1992 104,600
1996 96,390
2000 105,594
2004 122,349
2008131,407
2012 124,026


Another common statistical manipulation, for example, are stock market crashes. The worst stock market crash in history was in September 2008 when the Dow Jones lost almost 800 points. In the 1929 crash, by comparison, the Dow Jones only lost 69 points. That makes the 2008 crash over 10x worse, right?

Of course, in 1929 the Dow Jones lost over 20% of it's value while the 2008 crash of nearly 800 points resulted in just a 7% loss which isn't even in the top 10.
Edited by Affinity, Nov 11 2013, 11:54 PM.
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Archaicwisdom

affinity,

I'm not fully following your first example. break that down further before i comment.
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Archaicwisdom

oh, i didn't see the raw numbers, i see what you're saying now.
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1. A White woman carried Obama for 9 months.

2. A white woman gave birth to Obama.

3. Obama was raised by white people.

4. Obama went to mostly white colleges.

5. Most of Obama's advisers are white

6. Most of his campaign money came from white people

7. All of his speech writers are white and Jewish

Obama is a product that white people made.
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Nov 12 2013, 12:22 AM
1. A White woman carried Obama for 9 months.

2. A white woman gave birth to Obama.

3. Obama was raised by white people.

4. Obama went to mostly white colleges.

5. Most of Obama's advisers are white

6. Most of his campaign money came from white people

7. All of his speech writers are white and Jewish

Obama is a product that white people made.
When blacks love someone they claim him regardless of his background and upbringing.

When blacks hate someone they deny any connection to him at all.

Too much focus on race.
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