“Exit Polls: Whites Flee Democrats” reports “Democrats attracted fewer white voters on Election Day than in any other midterm election since World War II, according to a RealClearPolitics report. Republicans won whites in Tuesday’s U.S. House vote by a 22-percentage point margin (60 to 38 percent), according to exit polls.
“Republicans won whites by just 4 points in 2006.
“Whites defected at three times the rate of Hispanics between the two midterms — while the black vote remained fixed… ”
WATCHDOG: Some part of the Democrat defeat was likely the result of a subliminal racial backlash. The nation didn’t totally put behind it hundreds of years of racial prejudice on Election Day, 2008. This is not to suggest we haven’t made amazing progress. A wag of the tail for Newsmax for the courage to carry the report.