The moves are targeted at voters who supported the president in 2008 but now are shying away from him. That problem seems particularly acute for the president among white working-class voters, whose support was shaky in the last election and whose allegiances are traditionally dictated by their pocketbooks.
White working-class voters rarely favor Democrats, and Mr. Obama lost this group by 18 percentage points in 2008. But the Republican advantage widened to 30 points in 2010. Mr. Obama will need to narrow that gap to win re-election.
Other segments of the white vote are also moving to the GOP, according to the surveys by the Pew Research Center, including young whites, those with less than a high-school education and voters earning less than $30,000. The latter group favored Democrats by 15 points in 2008; they now back the GOP by four points.
Black and Hispanic voters are affected by the economy as well—in many cases, more harshly. But they represent more loyal Democratic constituencies and, for the most part, have stuck with the Democrats.
This Post Ain't About Obama!!!!
Earlier today I posted the following from an article in the Atlanta Post entitled "What Is The Shame In Helping Blacks":
Are Blacks that soiled, infected and bastardized that a politician can’t say that a specific program, aid or relief is designed to help Black folks without committing political suicide?
With the sentiment above voiced by otherwise favorable Black Progressives - should we be looking at the reluctance to openly embrace the demands of the Black Progressive Democrats as the need to retain the votes of White Progressive Democrats in the mid-west?
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