FINANCIAL TIMES: …The electorate has become less white and more Hispanic more rapidly than predicted, according to the national census, two trends that will influence elections for decades….
At the same time, Mr Obama and his party’s share of the white vote has reached all-time lows, hitting 40 per cent in last November’s mid-term elections. In the 2008 presidential poll, Mr Obama won 43 per cent of the white vote…
The question for 2012, according to the National Journal in Washington, which applied the census data to the electoral map, is “whether Republicans can increase their advantage among whites enough to overcome what is likely to be a growing share of the overall vote cast by minorities”. … (more)
