Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

All they had to do was look at the 2010 gubernatorial election map of Wisconsin

The Future of the Obama Coalition. (The New York Times, 11/27/2011)

Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Fond du Lac counties.

Not to mention reddening Racine and Kenosha.


Excerpt: All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic. [Emphasis added.]