Thursday, November 8, 2012

A Disquieting Thought | Power Line

A Disquieting Thought | Power Line: "The white vote, it turns out, was tepid.  If the white vote had turned out to its potential, Romney wins and we wouldn’t need to go through the current hand-wringing about whether the GOP needs to seek amnesty from Latinos.  What’s going on here?  Keep two factoids in mind.  First, according to exit polls Romney won white evangelicals by a four-to-one margin—as high or higher than George W. Bush in 2004.  But second, recall Karl Rove’s theory after the 2000 election that Bush’s missing majority in that train-wreck election was the 3 million or so evangelicals who stayed home and didn’t vote, possibly because they were put off by the late DUI news about Bush.  Finding and (successfully) turning out those voters became the key to Bush’s increased margin of victory in 2004."

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