The Democratic Party’s White Voter Problem

debbieHardly a week goes by without some Democratic Party hack putting finger to iPad and swiping out a screed about the Republican Party’s problem with women or minorities.

This week it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz with “The GOP’s Woman Problem.”

Schultz claims that the Republican Party was “rejected again by a bloc of voters that make up more than half of the electorate.” That claim is as real as Schultz’s hair color. The only bloc that rejected Romney was the same bloc that rejected Hillary; the bloc of minority voters who came out in force for Obama.

And unless Hillary Clinton also had a “woman problem” they didn’t do it over gender.

For example in the South Carolina Democratic primary, Obama beat Hillary among women by 54 to 30. That’s a much bigger split than the one between Obama and Romney among women. While Hillary Clinton beat Obama among white voters, Obama won 78 percent of the black vote.

There was no gender gap. There was a racial gap.

Throughout her campaign, Hillary Clinton consistently won the votes of white women in large numbers and lost the votes of women who said that their gender was not important. Obama won the female vote by his largest margins in southern states because he wasn’t really winning by gender, he was benefiting from a large turnout of black women.

Obama won the female vote in Georgia by 32%, but Hillary won 62% of the white female vote. Obama however had won 87% of the black female vote. In Ohio, Hillary and Obama had nearly the same split, but Hillary won the female vote in Ohio by 16% because the racial makeup of the voters was different.

In 2012, Romney won 53% of the white female vote and 3% of the black female vote in Ohio. He didn’t lose women. He lost the same “bloc of voters” that had rejected Hillary, not over gender, but over race.

The Republican Party doesn’t have a “woman problem.” Romney won the votes of white women in every age group; including young women. And Obama lost white women as he did all white voters.

He lost white voters by 59% to 39%. He lost white voters of every age and gender. His loss among white voters was completely unprecedented for any winner of a presidential election.

The GOP doesn’t have a “woman problem”, but the Democrats have a “white woman problem” and a “white man problem.”

The articles about the GOP’s problem with minority voters blame the Republican Party for alienating minority voters. But shouldn’t the Democratic Party be held accountable for alienating white voters?

This is about more than just numbers.

The Democratic Party’s poor performance among white voters is leading it to engage in some very questionable behavior. If Obama and his party weren’t polling so poorly among white voters, it’s doubtful that the Democrats would be nakedly exploiting racial tensions in Ferguson in the hopes of turning out black voters for the midterm elections.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s a New York Times article which describes how the Democrats are hoping to retain control of the Senate “as they urge black voters to channel their anger by voting Democratic in the midterm elections.”

A race riot at the polls isn’t the political strategy of a legitimate party, but the Democrats are legitimately panicking because they have lost white voters.

Obama’s approval rating among young white voters, a group that came out for him in 2008, was at 28 percent. 58 percent of them would like to recall him from office. His approval ratings among the white working class are so catastrophic that he might as well be Walter Mondale.

So Obama is hitting the Rust Belt even while Democrats running for reelection avoid him like the Ebola virus. His fallback strategy is racism and more racism. Everything from Ferguson to the border crisis was set up to push his minority voting base into voting in the midterm elections.

The migrants crowded into gyms and the burned out stores in Ferguson are both the products of a criminally corrupt and racially divisive election strategy. But no amount of race riots or refugee mobs can save the Democratic Party from dealing with its white voter problem.

Instead of the GOP being ordered to change its policies to appeal to minority voters, maybe it’s time that the Democrats changed their policies to appeal to white voters.

It wouldn’t be that hard.

The Democrats have won white voters before. But then they got lazy and decided that it would be easier to depend on racial voting blocs. The blocs worked for Obama, but they didn’t work out too well for them in Congress. Now the Democrats are making a last ditch effort to hold on to the Senate using an insulting and racist campaign that has already cost both black and white lives.

To win over white voters, the Democrats have to stop freeing drug dealers while banning guns. Instead they have to stop fighting the 2nd Amendment and start arresting drug dealers. They have to stop pushing higher taxes and uncontrolled spending and start rebuilding the economy with jobs and tax cuts. They have to let go of ObamaCare and stop pushing socialized medicine and socialized everything.

White voters have less faith in government. They believe that the country is on the wrong track. They aren’t committed Republicans, but they are deeply skeptical of a deeply racist Democratic Party that no longer speaks to their needs and values.

The Democratic Party’s response to its loss of support among white voters has been to accuse them of racism. In the same New Yorker interview in which Obama claimed that ISIS was a JV team, he blamed racism for his poor approval ratings among white voters. Both claims were delusional and wrong.

White voters did not belatedly become racist. The Democratic Party stopped listening to them and went down a racist rabbit hole trying to defend an administration where Al Sharpton and Eric Holder are dictating a national conversation on race.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is right. One party in 2012 was “rejected again by a bloc of voters that make up more than half of the electorate.”

That party was the Democratic Party.

It’s time to ask whether a party that has lost the support of the majority of the country has any place running the country.

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  • Sharp Shtik

    In his own words in his own books and speeches, Obama is a traitorous, racist socialist obsessed with “fundamentally transform[ing]” our country he hates so much. He and fellow socialists and communists (i.e. Democrats) run government as an organized crime syndicate. They are public enemy #1. While total Republican control with aggressive dismantling of the socialist government industry buy America some time, the only way to save America is by switching to a strong democracy from a weak democracy where everyone votes no matter how taxpayer dependent (gov’t employee, lobbyist, welfare recipient), unintelligent, ignorant, immoral, traitorous, criminal, etc.

    • sundance69

      Unfortunately most of his base cannot read.

      • Sharps Rifle

        They also can’t think or reason.

        • Borchardt

          Spot on, Mathew.

  • *Sharpshooter

    “A race riot at the polls isn’t the political strategy of a legitimate
    party, but the Democrats are legitimately panicking because they have
    lost white voters.”

    And with their amnesty stance, they’re losing Hispanics, too. (Anecdote follows) Purportedly, uneducated Hispanics vote 75% (?) for democrats, as do liberal arts educated ones. Hispanics educated in the sciences and business, though, vote over 60% for Republicans. (Facts follow) In Artizona’s Prop 200 a few years back, for “English Only”, the highest demographic voting FOR the proposal were Hispanics, at nearly 80%.

    “They have to stop pushing higher taxes and uncontrolled spending and start rebuilding the economy with jobs and tax cuts. ”

    Tax cuts are nice, but they’re more a long term solution. The biggest problem right now is REGULATION, and that needs to be severely cut, including the EPA travesties, such boondoggles as Frank-Dodd, Sarbanes-Oxley, and our schizophrenic TAX CODE. And that’s only a start. Taxes are direct, but regulation is insidious. And taxes on dividends are DOUBLE TAXATION.

    Their single female base is strictly pandering to those whose thinking is primarily “between their legs”.

    The Democrats have been pandering to groups for decades, and more recently they’ve refined it to pandering to minorities. As such, they have joint integrity issues
    with themselves and their constituents, cultures that have strong overtones of tribalism.

    • truebearing

      Hispanic protestors in Murrieta neutralized the Amnesty/racism narrative the Left had all lubed up and ready to go. The Left is alienating blacks with amnesty as well. The Right needs to play some divide and conquer of their own by straightforwardly addressing these issues directly to blacks and hispanics. Truth has a power all of its own, and if the Right would effectively show minority groups how they are being manipulated and used for political gain, at the expense of their well being, the Left would at very least lose the ability to motivate their minority base, if not lose some of them permanently.

  • David

    Republicans shouldn’t change their policies to appeal to minority voters but they do need to work harder to get their message to minority voters. For the most part, Republicans don’t even bother campaigning in black neighborhoods and this needs to change.

    • sundance69

      It was a waste of time in the last 2 elections. 92% of blacks voted for the idiot. They would have voted for Barney Fyfe if he was black, unfortunately we would have been better off with Barney Fyfe.

      • truebearing

        Obama may have done more to split the monolithic black vote than anyone would have thought possible. The Right needs to spend some time and money on ads showing blacks how they are being taken for granted and used.

      • Nabukuduriuzhur

        Sadly true. Whenever the Republicans “reached across the aisle” in the last decade or so, they got their hands slapped.

        The idea was a poor one to start with. The idea of compromising right and wrong just to get votes? That is something that Republicans should not do.

    • Waldemar Daninsky

      Perhaps fear of becoming a victim of the “knockout game” keeps some of them away from black neighborhoods.

    • WhiteHunter

      David, I agree with the first clause in your first sentence; the rest of your post, not so much.

      Obama’s (and the Democrat) base is the rioters, looters, and arsonists of Ferguson, and among the “Latinos,” the open-borders-and-amnesty crowd, which seems to be the majority of that bloc. And the same goes for the Warmist enviro-whackos who are destroying our economy and standard of living.

      We will never win their votes, or even their attention to our message, no matter how many concessions we make and how much we pander to their demands. If there’s the slightest doubt about that, just look at what happened when Gabe Gomez ran against the execrable Markey for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts and failed to win the “Hispanic” vote or the endorsement of even a single Spanish-language newspaper.

      But we WILL betray, alienate, and piss off our own base by doing so, as we’ve seen again and again. And that’s a loss we cannot afford.

      We need 100% solidarity within our own Party (for a change; no backstabbing of conservatives and the Tea Party by RINOs, “Moderates,” and the GOP “Establishment”), and should work on those groups we have a better-than-average chance of winning, like the remorseful “independents,” the “undecided,” and perhaps most of all, the young idiots who adored and worshiped Obama but who now find themselves bankrupt, afraid, and unemployed thanks to the Messiah they helped elect. By now many of them should have come to their senses.

      And when the Damnocrats slander us with smears of “racism” and “war on women,” we need to dismiss those with the condescending sneer they deserve and stick to our message of rebuilding the strength and prosperity of America, instead of falling into the trap of trying to deny their lies, which is like Br’er Rabbit trying to win a fist fight with the Tar Baby in the old Uncle Remus story.

      • bigjulie

        The real problem is the fact that a sizeable majority in America is crying out for patriotic conservatism, just as they did in the 2010 mid-terms but the Republican “insiders” are afraid that they will drive away their big-money donors with too much emphasis on “Tea Party” type conservatism, because the Tea Party voters represent ideological motivation rather than a large group that can be “bought”!
        We already know that the Democrats are scared “poopless” of the rise of a Ted Cruz or Mike Lee, both of whom can be fiery speakers with really motivational words appealing to patriotism and making America number one on the planet again! We could do 2010 all over again, particularly in the face of President Pantywaist’s benign assistance of ISIS, Hamas and a score of other radical Islamist groups who, I fear, will be coming soon to a large crowd near you, spreading murder and mayhem, if we do not do something about them and pretty damned quick!

        • WhiteHunter

          Q.E.D., julie.

    • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

      Republicans shouldn’t view minorities as a collectivist mass in Dem fashion. Instead they should look demographically at which minority voters they have been able to get in the past, along lines of location, religion, class, etc and strengthen their appeal to them.

      • Debbie G

        I live in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (home of Cleveland), whose population is now 30.2% black. Several of our patriot groups have wondered how to tackle this issue. The churches with large black congregations are led by outspoken liberal pastors, who stick their noses into every political storm that arises (isn’t this illegal?). But your comment is very insightful–we need to target minorities in a more defined way.

        • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

          Instead of looking at the national percentage, we need to look locally where Republicans did better and see why.

          That’s a good place to start.

          We also need to distinguish various groups. Latinos aren’t one big mass. We need to look at culture and country of origin.

          Likewise with blacks, African immigrants vs African Americans, region of immigration, income, etc

          Look at black small business owners rather than assuming that you can march into the ghetto

          • Debbie G

            Excellent suggestions. I never even thought about African immigrants! Thanks again.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            African immigrants from some countries are surprisingly successful.

          • Yehuda Levi

            As you say, people are individuals, not collectivist groups.

            Drilling down to distinctions is fine, drilling down to individual values is better. Human beings have much more in common than their differences.

            Discover their values and appeal to them.

          • truebearing

            Obama has made it easy to appeal to people’s survival instincts. The Left uses fear to motivate people, but now it is their policies that are causing the fear. The Right needs to go on the offensive with national security, including the economic aspects, and crush the Left for exposing the US and the world to a growing threat of endless poverty, epidemic disease, racial war, and world war.

            All races suffer equally when terrorists are allowed to increase unhindered. All races suffer from the spread of disease. All suffer from a collapsed economy, racial civil war, or a world war. The Left has no credible case to make for its leadership. Hillary slept through that call at 3:00 am. We have everything we need to carpet bomb the Left.

          • truebearing

            It’s amazing what people can do when they aren’t dragging around tons of envy, self-pity, and hate. The Left has put a ball and chain on American blacks, but the ideological slaves can’t see it, so they keep dragging it around.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            Ironically Holder came from a stable two parent family and a real estate broker immigrant father. But this is still the outcome when you fall into the sewer of entitlement and identity politics.

          • jackphat

            There’s easy money to be made in race baiting.

          • CaptainCurmudgeon

            Maybe growing up next to Malcolm X had an effect on him– and then going through high school with Axelrod tutoring him– perhaps others views infected him with Marxist Communist ideology

          • Nabukuduriuzhur

            Absolutely!

            They haven’t been programmed by their media, non-Christian pastors, etc.

          • CaptainCurmudgeon

            We need to be hammering home the point that Obama is in witht Qatar…and Qatar funds terrorism …funds the Muslim Brotherhood…Hamas…ISIS…and is a state backer of terrorism…they have used their vast weath to buy into our corporations…and into our politicians…they own almost every lobbyist in Wash Dcc…shame on Boeing and Bloomberg for being in bed witht Qatatr, sponsors of this evil…that traffics in children, slavery, drugs…the IslamoNazi’s of today ..

            Every state Obama encouraged his BS Arab Spring was simply a take down of secular states to turn over to Sunni Muslims…Obama has blood on his hands from the hilocauset of Christians in the Middle East..as the Muslim brotherhood is saying….”First the Sunday People–then the Saturday People”…Obama pretending to be disengaged is simply Plausible Deniability for his evil deeds…Wake up America–StandUpAmericaUS…

            Please educate yourself..and demand this evil stop

          • CaptainCurmudgeon
      • Rob

        As well as, exposing the democrat creation of and collection of ‘victim’ groups (ie; blacks, hispanics, gays, muslims, women, LGBT, etc) as a means to gain power. Framing everything with race, or rich vs poor. It’s straight out of the Alinsky playbook to isolate (white republicans essentially) the enemy, then marginalize him, and, finally, destroy him.

      • David

        Middle class black voters who have seen their neighborhoods turn to crap because of Democratic polices might be a good place to start.

  • BMS

    The Democratic Party use to be the party of the working man. Now they have become the party of the non-working man. They now represent an anti-white, welfare giving, pro-illegal immigration, affirmative action seeking party and let’s hope they will loose big time come Election Day.

    • phoebeintheforest

      Brilliant! I would just add: pro-voter fraud.

    • glpage

      They are also extreme suck ups to very rich socialists.

    • NJK

      We need a constitutional amendment. People “with no skin in the game,” those who don’t pay taxes should not have a vote. They aren’t contributing to society, and are a drain on it. No vote. And, those who shall not work shall not eat. -John Smith leader of the Jamestown Colony

      • trickyblain

        “The socialist principle, “He who does not work shall not eat”, is already realized.”

        - Vladimir Lenin

        • Nabukuduriuzhur

          That is not a socialist principle.

          It comes from the Bible in 2 Thessalonians. Paul was rebuking a group of people who were assuming they didn’t need to work because they’d been told that the Lord would be returning very soon.

      • ebonystone

        “… those who don’t pay taxes should not have a vote.”

        I’d make that: everyone gets one vote, but taxpayers get two votes. And maybe anyone who pays more than a certain amount of taxes gets three votes.

      • Sarah Firebaugh

        Actually… wealthy, more educated, and richer voters participate at higher rates than poor folk, especially when you throw in felon disenfranchisement further impeding upon our ability to vote. So, if you don’t like the way the country is going, stop blaming poor people. We aren’t putting these people in office. And I’m certain these statistics are skewed… if they controlled for religiosity (the number one indicator of whether or not a voter shall support the Republican party… I’m certain the distribution would be much more equitable.

    • AtomicSwirl

      Yes, and under Obama, the Democrat Party has become a pro-Islamist party as well.

  • claspur

    God, is that woman a mess !

  • KenoshaMarge

    The mainstream Republican Party believes that they have a “woman” problem because the MSM that smears them at every opportunity, tells them so.
    The Republican Party, IMHO, has a stupid problem. As does any woman that bothers to listen to the Wasserman-Schultz cretin. Can even Democrats be stupid enough to believe anything she says?

    • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

      Unfortunately Republican leaders are

      • KenoshaMarge

        Unfortuately, I agree. Torn between two stupids. Repulicans only chance is to rid themselves of the “leaders”. And we know that is’t going to happen.

    • jackphat

      Yes, the LIF voters ( non voters) women are truly that stupid. I am a Female and have seen this way, way too many times. We have an education problem – lack of basic civics.

  • namberak

    I always dislike seeing a picture of Blabbermouth Schultz, as Limbaugh styles her, appear on an article. Her picture pretty much always triggers an overwhelming urge to make an ad hominem attack. I mean honestly, just read this piece, then look at her picture and tell me it just doesn’t scream ‘short bus escapee’. ;-)

    • Virgil Hilts

      I have an overwhelming urge to perform projectile vomiting!

    • Debbie G

      I think it’s the greasy hair. Yeccchhh.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    How I love the classics!

  • Local Observer

    Great article, tells it like it is. And white voters don’t hate Obama for being Black, the hate him because he is FREAKING AWFUL and is tracking to go down as the worst President in U.S. history.

    • MrUniteUs1

      It’s racist for you the lump all white voters together. President Obama won more white votes than Bill Clinton or John Kerry. In fact most of the people that voted for him are of the Caucasian persuasion. What policies do you think justify hatred. I disagreed with Bush thought his policies were wrong, but I didn’t hate him,

  • Virgil Hilts

    This applies here.

    “Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office.

    I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine ,
    even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to
    Washington , we’re Number One. There’s no getting around the fact that the
    last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine
    Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain
    went up on ‘Macbeth’.

    The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift
    of blab. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or
    simply marvel at their ability to form words.”

    – Columnist Burt Prelutsky,

    Los Angeles Times

  • Race_Dissident

    Excellent column. Now will the GOP exhibit a bit of testosterone and call the Democratic party by its real name–the anti-white party? The GOP hasn’t shown a testicle in 30 years so I’m not counting on it to do so at this late stage in the game.

    • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

      They would sooner become Democrats

  • MrUniteUs1

    Over 70% of Jews voted for President Obama and the Democrats. Democrats won the majority of all American voter except older Caucasians. Among Caucasians the biggest determinant is age.

    • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

      Obama lost young white voters too

      • William

        Actually he got more white young people voting for him than for McCain or Romney. GOP voters are an older demographic.

        • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

          Romney won young whites.

          • William

            Maybe a few. Democrats tend to attract younger voters.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            The majority. Even white women 18-29.

          • William

            It got so bad for Republicans in 2008 that they resorted to picking Palin as running mate. Internal polls showed Obama was attracting more women voters. Boy did that backfire on the GOP, loL!

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            Obama lost white women to Hillary and Romney.

          • William

            It doesn’t really matter now. As long as Republicans continue their War on Women they will continue to lose support from them. Women fought long and hard for their rights and will not give them up. If Hillary runs she will get the majority of women voters (who are the majority of the electorate) and easily win over any Republican the GOP picks.

          • CDM

            What rights are women in danger of losing? If you can’t name anything, then I’d say you’ve fallen for a cheap slogan.

          • William

            Reproductive rights. Also, if Republicans could take away their right to vote they would.

            Google: Republican war on women

          • CDM

            And what exactly are “reproductive rights” besides a euphemism? Try if you can to be specific here.

          • William

            You really don’t know?

            Reproductive rights, meaning the freedom to control one’s reproduction. To be able to use contraceptives and have abortions. To have the freedom to plan your family.

          • CDM

            Definitions matter.

            Are you seriously saying that the Republicans are going to outlaw contraceptives? No one in the Republican party says that.

            As for overturning Rowe v. Wade, first you need a case and it takes years for it to reach the Supreme Court. It is then unlikely, as this Supreme Court is loathe to the wholesale overturning of previous precedents, unlike the Warren court. Even if Rowe v. Wade is overturned, the matter would simply return to the states to decide whether to allow it or not and under what terms. Just like the Constitution says.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            Republicans won white women.

            Democrats keep repeating the War on Women lie.

          • William

            It’s no lie, it’s in the congressional record. 300+ abortion bills etc. Then you have the war being waged at the state level, with trap laws, forced ultrasound and the like.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            That’s a liberal abortion obsession, not men vs women.

          • William

            Most men support the rights of women. Its’ religious fundamentalism vs human rights.

          • Drakken

            Really? War on women you say? So where is the body count? Where are the casualties of this so called war?

      • MrUniteUs1

        True in 2012 by a smaller margin than older white voters.
        He won the same demon in 2008.

        • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

          And lost it in 2012.

          • MrUniteUs1

            Yes I just wrote that.

  • MrUniteUs1

    I think the number one problem for Dems is messaging. For instance did you know that the Bush tax cuts were supposed to expire in 2010. Well President Obama made the tax cuts permanent for 98% of Americans. Caucasians benefited the month. Did you know that during the first 2 years of of the Obama we went from losing 800,000 jobs a month to gaining 200,000 jobs a month. Caucasians benefited the most.. Republicans took over the House, demanded cuts, and slowed down the economy. Meanwhile what little message that does get out seems to be focused on immigrants, gays, and abortion. Ms. Schultz is a part time DNC chair. Dems need a full time chair. Someone that has charisma, and is camera ready, like David Horowitz.

  • trapper

    I could never understand why white people, especially white men, would vote Democrat. Leftist self-loathing has a lot to do with it.

    • MrUniteUs1

      I could never understand why anyone making less than $100,000 a year would vote Republican.

      • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

        People making less than $100K a year still end up subsidizing welfare recipients

        So why would they vote Dem?

        • William

          People usually vote for a candidate or a party because they are perceived as lesser of two evils. Obama is serving two terms as president for that reason.

          • truebearing

            Briliant assumption. No, people voted for Obama because: A) They were lazy, stupid, or both. They didn’t bother to do any research, such as his history as a communist in Chicago. B) He lied his a*s off. C) The media was in the tank for Obama and refused to report on his sordid and sometimes inexplicable past.

        • MrUniteUs1

          Are you referring to poor or corporate welfare recipients?
          Note Unemployment rose during the Bush I and Bush II. Unemployment fell during the Clinton and Obama.
          Democratic politicians support programs that create jobs for the poor and working class, Republicans support plans that hurt the poor and working class. Republicans got the food stamp cut, but they wanted and but then gave the money to wealthy and corporate farmers. Some working poor may have to go on welfare to feed their families.

          • CDM

            I see you’re well versed on Democrat mythology. You’re not even worth trying to reason with.

          • MrUniteUs1

            I want to be accurate. So if you think I wrote something mythical, then point it out and make a correction.

          • CDM

            Very well, for starters, look up what happened to the labor participation rate and then tell me that the unemployment numbers are not cooked.

          • MrUniteUs1

            Republicans rejoiced whenever unemployment went up but cried when unemployment went down. Unpatriotic and weird. Expect lower labor partician rate for years to come. Guess why? 300,000 baby boomers retiring each year. Surprised you didn’t know that.

          • CDM

            Nice try. 300,000 is a drop in the bucket. In fact, that’s the number of jobs that need to be created each month to account for population growth.

            The labor participation rate was 66% before Obama and since dropped to 63%, the lowest since Carter, who your boy is looking more like every day. That’s 6 million people who have disappeared from the labor force. To get a better idea of what’s really going on:

            http://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

            So we should congratulate Obama for doing a half-assed job?

          • MrUniteUs1

            Labor participation rate, I know that’s the latest chorus line dictated to Republicans.

            74 million boomers will retire over the next several years. Hardly a drop in the bucket. So expect the labor participation to continue to drop for years to come. Glad you mentioned Carter. 40 years later many people are now retiring. It’s not complicated. Note Unemployment trend is the same on all 3 graphs. Thank for President Obama for the fast turnaround during the first 2 years of his administration. GDP went from -8.9 when Bush left to over 2.0. Would be higher but House Republicans blocked any more stimulus, insisted on spending cuts, and slowed down the economy. The actually cheered when unemployment went up. Unpatriotic and weird but true.

          • CDM

            I hope Debbie is paying you to work overtime.

            And I caught you in a lie. For the last two years of Bush and the first two years of Obama, the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, so how could the House Republicans block anything?

          • Sheik Yerbouti

            It’s simple, they’re evil GOP racists, so they are capable of magic!

          • Pete

            GDP always goes down that far. There is always a business cycle. It is like the tides or a heart beat. It is part of nature.

            The problem is how deep and often the recessions are and how long the recovery is. They cover this at ZeroHedge. You better get over their and learn something. Your Persona management software is also failing.

          • trickyblain

            In modern history, the poverty rates rise under Republican administrations and drop under Democratic ones. Since Carter, same trend for the national economy. Republicans are desperately are trying to get folks to cover their ears and eyes and believe it’s not a whole lot better than 2008. It’s not working.

          • MrUniteUs1

            Wow that’s a powerful chart.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            ” Republicans are desperately are trying to get folks to cover their ears
            and eyes and believe it’s not a whole lot better than 2008. It’s not
            working.”

            It isn’t… for the middle class. And the polls reflect that.

            But if you’re on Wall Street or welfare, then it’s great.

          • trickyblain

            I guess it depends on the polls. The Consumer Confidence Index has been off the charts the last few months — it represents accross the board households.

            I bought a house in a decent urban neighborhood in late 2011. It has increased in value by 200k since. I am not alone. This is another indicator of an improving middle class economy.

            And, let’s face it, most folks on welfare wouldn’t characterize their financial situation as “great.”

          • truebearing

            Here is the context you left out:

            http://www.businessinsider.com/presidential-party-and-gdp-2014-7

            Also, GDP doesn’t tell the entire story. With Obama’s massive spending, and the inevitable inflation that will result, he has created a situation where the GDP will have to rise meteorically to keep up withe the consequences of the debt.

          • trickyblain

            I didn’t get the graph from that article (though I should have cited the source – WaPo), so there was no context left out. But thanks for sharing!

            Republicans sure are unlucky, I guess. That’s not exactly a compelling argument to support them.

            And Inflation is not “inevitable.” Bush spent more than any pre-Obama president and the reverse happened.

            GDP, Consumer Confidence Index, Wall Street, real estate, employment — virtually every economic indicator out there tells us that the economy is steadily improving; only the truly deluded would argue that it hasn’t improved since ’08.

            But admitting that doesn’t fit the FPM “Obama is making the sky fall” narrative, so …

          • CDM

            Still, you have to admit that this chart is cherry picking, assuming the data is correct. Why start at Truman? Truman was hardly a liberal and Kennedy wasn’t as much as people would like to think. Take them both out and the Democrats don’t look so hot.

            Pre-Carter there weren’t all that much ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans. Both had their liberal and conservative factions. But, then again, kids wouldn’t know that.

          • truebearing

            Be honest. The entirety of their argument wasn’t just on luck.

            The number of people who have dropped, and stayed, out of the workforce has remained at least as high as it was during the Carter malaise. If the Obama administration hadn’t changed the formula for calculating unemployment, the number would be double what they are claiming, maybe more.

            Wall Street is soaring because the Fed is pumping funny money into the economy as fast as it can. It is federal fraud.

            Consumer Confidence is a joke. It was so low it couldn’t get any lower. People acclimated to bad times, so even minor improvements bump it up. It is highly subjective, easily manipulated, and a perfect metric for the lying Left.

            You haven’t noticed that inflation is already happening? Did you stop eating six years ago?

            Gas prices are still the highest they have ever been. Obama is intentionally driving up electricity with his idiotic environmental agenda. People that had affordable health care don’t anymore, and the number of people who won’t have any is at least as high as it was before Obamacare…but at least we have that nice Death Panel “benefit.” That is a Progressives idea of progress.

            The vast majority of the newly created jobs have gone to criminals, aka illegal aliens. Blacks are getting hammered by Obama’s “improving” economy.

          • Nabukuduriuzhur

            Indeed. 2009 was the FIRST year since the Great Depression that we had large numbers of actual homeless. By that I mean people who had lost their jobs and literally had nowhere to go. In the 1980s and 1990s, most homeless were drug addicts, alcoholics, people that had been kicked out of mental hospitals by the ACLU’s machinations, etc. A few genuine vagrants, but not many.

          • Pete

            ZeroHedge also showed graphically that the Stockmarket rise was tied to QE.

            Which is why they say there are no longer any fundamentals.

            So when I trade, part of it will be based on MoMo. It is a stupid way to trade but it works. the world should not come down to that, but it has.

          • Pete

            When you summarize things you necessarily lose information.

            I remember school where some classmates said they would rather be assigned to a spot where someone had been relieved of duty than someone who was an average performer or a stellar performer. The thinking was even if they put in an average performance (competent), they would look stellar.

            When your presidency is in relation to the business cycle matters. It also matter in relation to war and other societal trends.

            If the Press is worth 15 points for John Kerry for the 2004 election, what is the press worth in influencing the minds of the people day in and day out as far as irrational exhuberance or just a feeling of well being or lack there of.

            I don’t know why I took multi-variable calc and similar courses if All i get from the echo chamber is one factor analyses from my fellow man and politicians. Try a 4 factor analysis based on control of the house, senate, President and business cycle.

          • Pete

            Like I said. A multi-factor analysis.

            The US Economy Does Better Under Democratic Presidents, But Party Affiliation Has Nothing To Do With It

            http://www.businessinsider.com/presidential-party-and-gdp-2014-7

            In linear Algebra we also look at more than 1 variable. we often look at 3 to 6. to pass the course you better able to handle 3 to 6 variable or more. Why are you trying to sneak this dumbed down version of the economy past us in the forum?

        • Nabukuduriuzhur

          From what I’ve observed, most Democrat voters vote for someone as dishonest as themselves. It’s not PC, but it’s demonstrable from what the voters themselves say, the rationalizations, etc.

      • William

        Ignorance, perhaps. People vote against their own interests.

        • MrUniteUs1

          True William. Most Southerners lived in abject poverty prior to the Civil War. Plantation owners preferred slave labor. Yet hundred of thousands were programmed to fight against their own country and even family members, while plantation literally sipped on mint julep and watched them die.

          • Pete

            No the plantation owners went to war and were the officers. Their slaves buried many of them. Try again.

          • MrUniteUs1

            They saw little combat and left 600,000 on the battlefield.

          • Pete

            Typical Leftist troll reply.

            - You make a statement
            - I make a reply
            - You declare it anecdotal
            - Now we go to statistics
            - Then without admitting defeat you move on.

            For instance we say how that went with the Driving while Black (DWB) Meme. The statistics are in and we found the the Democrat Party Leadership lied again.

            this is my surprise face :|

      • Pete

        I never understood why 2 married people could not make 40,000 a year or more after 5 or 10 years of working unless they refused to hit the books at trade school, community college, or self study.

        • MrUniteUs1

          Layoff, injury, illness, a decision for one to take care of the children or an elderly parent, are just a few reasons.
          Being a college graduate doesn’t gurantee a job these days.

          • Pete

            “Being a college graduate doesn’t gurantee a job these days.”

            Thank you Democrat Party!

            All the canards you have thrown up as temporary road blocks in a discussion are no more than minor speed bumps. People have been successfully dealing wit this for years.

          • MrUniteUs1

            Thank you Republican. No stimulus since 2009, just job killing budget cuts, and a Republican back tax code that rewards Bain Capital and others when the ship American jobs overseas.

          • Pete

            As Thomas Sowell said, taxes fro programs have to come somewhere.

            Taxing people to give to other people is like taking a bucket of water out the deep end or swimming pool, walking to the shallow end and pouring it in.

            Taxing for a given year is for all intents and purposes is a closed system.

            Where it is not closed is that it destroys incentive. your perfect system was post Stalin USSR. So much incentive was destroyed that the shelves in stores were empty.

            Now Brain surgeon why is that?

            There was demand. But there was no supply.

          • Pete

            You Democrat party raises taxes to 75% and 90% and then makes all sorts of carve outs.

            They will literally say the sky is falling, so we need green energy. They then will give tax breaks to green companies run by their friends. So the 75% or 90% tax rates do not apply to them.

            You lap it all up like a dog.

    • MrUniteUs1

      3 reasons off the bat, Medicare, social security, decent wages,
      Republicans want to reduce all three.

      • Pete

        No one with a college education wants to rely on Medicare, SS or minimum wage.

        If you have a decent major and decent grades, then if you are not making it, chances are the economy is at fault.

        As we have a political economy that means the politicians are at fault.

        Having politicians provide us with a slightly upgraded version of gruel while they go to the Hamptons or Marthas Vinyard does not cut it. i.e the Democrats do not cut it.

        • MrUniteUs1

          Seniors like medicare, people cash their social security checks. and wage earners want to be paid a decent wage.
          Democrats are good for business because they generate more customers.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            ObamaCare cut Medicare and hiked the cost of medical care for seniors.

          • MrUniteUs1

            Medicare advantage not medicare.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            You really don’t know much, do you.

          • MrUniteUs1

            I know the difference between medicare advantage, and medicare.

  • William

    Democrats will always be the party of minorities: Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, etc..the reason is because Democrats are nowhere near as conservative as Republicans on race and civil rights issues.

    • nimbii

      I realize your comments are intended in a conversational tone and I don’t intend to be contentious with the following:

      Conservatives generally feel that this implies that blacks, Jews, Hispanics, etc. need special “help” in the market place.

      It also implies that they can’t help themselves (soft racism) and only Dems are willing to make them special through legislation and tax dollars in exchange for votes.

      Congressional Black Caucus agrees to warehouse the black constituencies, La Raza the Hispanics, the Anti-Defamation League the Jews….now, let’s play “Who’s the Whore?”

      We all know where this boat is sailing as our cities go bankrupt.

      The Cloward and Piven model is working nicely to do the same to America.

      • William

        Cloward-Piven was laughed at at the time, even the most radical leftists thought it was a dumb idea. Seems you’re one of those whackadoo conspiracy theorists. I bet you believe Obama is a secret Marxist too.

        • nimbii

          But Cloward-Piven is working as Francis Fox Piven gleefully said on a Utube video some years ago.

          Obama was all but raised in Hawaii by Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed Communist. Valerie Jarrett is the daughter of Vernon Jarrett, an avowed Communist. David Axlerod was a fellow red diaper baby to David Horowitz. Horowitz has since come to his senses and become conservative.

          Can you associate Obama significantly with any who were not Communists?

          • William

            Sounds like Glenn Beck has been feeding you lies. In reality, Obama was raised by his grandparents after his mother left and he never knew someone called Frank Marshall Davis.
            And if Cloward-Piven were working the welfare system would be collapsing. It’s nothing more than a ridiculous fantasy.

          • CDM

            Then who is “Uncle Frank” in Dreams of my Father?

          • William

            Maybe his Uncle Frank.

          • CDM

            As in Marshall Davis? Apparently, he has no blood relative with the name Frank.

          • William

            He does not name Marshall Davis but apparently he has an uncle named Frank. It’s not an uncommon name.

          • CDM

            It’s also not uncommon to call an older close family friend “uncle”. I’m called “uncle” by the children of my close friends.

          • William

            So he had a family friend named Frank. So what.

          • CDM

            So you’re grasping at straws.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      I agree as I have been watching this happen. When a white democrat runs against a non-white democrat, the non-white is generally elected. This has the effect of disenfranchising white democrats. Where will they go? Will they continue to be democrats when they no longer have representation in their own party?

      I know SOME people think this political race polarizing is a good thing since it makes so many things “simple” for people. It legitimizes racism!

  • William

    Say what you will about Debbie, she has cajones and is not afraid to call out her fellow congressmen who are scumbags

    • JB Ziggy Zoggy

      If she has cajones she needs to spit ‘em out. So do you, trolltard.

      • William

        She’s been one of the harshest critics of her co-workers.
        Congress needs more dissenters like her.

    • glpage

      Wasserman-Schultz is an air head. Her statements are nothing more than DNC talking points.

  • nimbii

    Obama said in a campaign speech a few days before the 2012 election to “…vote your revenge…”

    Were whites racist who voted for him in 2008?

    Were the same whites racist when they voted against him in 2012?

    Dems have nowhere to go but racism because it is a locked-in constituency that only needs energizing a la Ferguson.

    Then of course come sexism and class warfare (need some October surprises).

    • MrUniteUs1

      Actually what you say is true of Republicans. Look for Republicans to continue to play the race card. That’s all they have left. Stock market up, unemployment down, Obama care supported, housing market back. What do government have to brag about? Shutting down the government.

      • nimbii

        You make a good point that all the special interests chowing down at the Federal trough continue with some level of bipartisan support.

        So many lobbyists and special interest cronies…so few tax dollars.

        Need to raise taxes and lease our natural resources to China, et al, to pay off our debt and grease the skids.

        Business as usual for the political class.

        • MrUniteUs1

          True.

      • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

        People are unhappy with the poor economy, the lack of good jobs and the direction the country is going.

        That’s what the GOP is running on.

        • MrUniteUs1

          It’s poor for some great for others. Stock market and real estate investors are doing fine.
          Limbaugh can still afford to get his clothes out of the cleaners.

          • http://sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel Greenfield

            but the middle class is screwed

          • MrUniteUs1

            Buy American, hire American.

        • MrUniteUs1

          The talking heads telling everyone how terrble things are making good money.

      • CDM

        Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are Republicans? Who knew?

  • bigjulie

    Great article, Daniel! I wonder how FPM manages to come up with so many insightful and articulate writers…but I’m glad they do.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Breaking news. Joan Rivers dead at the age 81.
    She will be missed. She made me lol many times. My prayers go out to her daughter who had to make that final decision.

  • truebearing

    Motivating apathetic white males is one way to increase the chances of victory. Another is to address the realities of life for minorities after 6 years of leftist rule. The truth about Obama’s false promises and pathetic performance, combined with emphasis on his intent to flood America with illegal aliens that will take jobs from blacks, will at very least suppress some of the black vote and even convert some to vote for a conservative.

    The combination of increasing the white male vote, decreasing the support for the Left, and pealing off a percentage that vote conservative is the more complete solution.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Breaking News. Joan Rivers dead at 81. She will be miss.
    She made me LOL more than once. My prayers go out to her daughter,
    who had to make that final decision.

  • Christopher Riddle

    One thing at a TIME!The DemonRat Party IS”RESPONSIBLE”for Nominating Obongo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • semus

    There’s another block that the Democrats have come to rely on. I think more than anyone believes possible. It’s their voter fraud block. Below is what I accidentally ran across after what happened in 2012.

    http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/22-signs-that-voter-fraud-is-wildly-out-of-control-and-the-election-was-a-sham

    http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/did-obama-steal-the-2012-election/

    http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/1-in-5-ohio-voters-are-fake/

  • David

    That’s ridiculous defeatism. There is no fundamental racial difference between blacks and whites. Blacks have the same capacity for independent thought as whites. Their devotion to the democrats has to do with the indoctrination they get. Change that and you can change their voting patterns. There are huge areas where Republicans don’t even bother campaigning because they’ve written it off as a lost cause. Hispanics are much more likely to vote Republican than blacks are and so it makes writing them off even more nonsensical.

  • Randy Townsend

    Wrong conclusion, wrong premise. The D’s decided years ago their political future rests with non-whites, and with good reason. D’s know that 15-20% of whites are hard core libs that would vote for Satan himself if he ran as a D – they will never lose that core vote. Blacks and hispanics (approximately 40% of the population) vote D almost a rate of almost 65%, and their absolute numbers are increasing. If Obama succeeds in another amnesty, that will generate at least 8-10,000,000 D votes IMMEDIATELY if the amnesty captures 15,000,000 illegals (love that phrase, BTW). The only minority that doesn’t vote predominately D are the asians, and the D’s have written them off long ago (after all, any group that prizes education and self sufficiency is an enemy of the D’s). At that point, getting the “white vote” is simply not important from a numbers standpoint. It all hinges of getting amnesty, and soon. If that happens, what’s left of America will dissolve into a leftist sludge that cannot be repaired.

    • Hepsiba

      Right now, the African American Black Race is at about 12.2% of the Total US Population. I’ve checked out Demographics constantly for years now. It’s something I have to do.
      Anyways, there’s still a very high percentage of White Population and Hispanics like myself that have assimilated over the generations as basically White and Vote Conservative.
      I grew up in LA County in several nasty areas. I saw Illegals voting regularly. Why ? Because other sympathetic Hispanics allowed them to.
      They work in the Social Services Departments, the DMV’s, the County, State, City and HELP their Amigos all the time.
      So, they have already been voting (D) for decades now.
      It’s the Electorate that needs to be taken into account as this article does.
      There in lays the Problemo for the (D)’s.
      The Electorate is still White. Sure, there’s more Hispanics now, but there still more Whites.
      Many of my family members were Pre-Disposed to Democrat when they became American Citizens, but learned over working times that it was definitely NOT what they wanted to continue.
      Cubans are very much Conservative.
      Muslims Vote very(D), and Asians Vote (D) but live in (R) neighborhoods.

    • MrUniteUs1

      Actually just the opposite. Most of the people that vote Democrat are Caucasian, and so are most Democratic elected officials. By contrast racist Southern Democrats, told LBJ, that Democrats would lose the south if he signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting rights act into law. LBJ did and most racist Southern Democrats became racist Southern Republicans.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Democrats having a messaging problem. Health care premiums will go down next year. Dems should be all over the news spreading the good news. Where are they?
    Does anyone recall DWS telling us why Americans should vote for Democrats? She needs to get on it, or find some one than can.

  • andrewwhitehead

    Yeah, the GOP should take lessons from Schultz; that’ll be the ticket to success.
    Schultz really, really, really makes women, particularly Democrat Party women…look stupid. I hope that she keeps the DNC chair until death…and being a Democrat, she can keep the chair for 50 years after.