US Voting Breakdown Graphic

A great graphic by Edison Research that shows how Americans fell in the 2012 US presidential election.

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8 Responses to US Voting Breakdown Graphic

coNZervative says:

November 24, 2012 at 12:04 PM

I’ve seen both david. It’s hard to exactly quantify, as electoral returns are done at Satte level and some don’t break it down, others don’t file till much later, etc. Let’s say 93-96%. But It’s obviously definitive.

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Graeme Edgeler says:

November 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM

Not the post for it … but as there really isn’t one, and because I noticed your Churchill picture while reading this post, here seems as good a place as any

Churchill was a Liberal MP from 1904-1924.

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- coNZervative says:
  
  November 23, 2012 at 12:05 PM
  
  Yes, know that. Read “About.”
  
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Changeiscoming says:

November 23, 2012 at 11:26 AM

Very interesting – In a democracy I accept people can vote for whatever reason they choose to vote for. But what the above graphic doesn’t say clearly is why. For example did the black ethnic people only vote for Obama because he is black? For me as a christian I don’t vote for someone because they claim to be a christian, I vote for their polices that I think will be the best for the country and my family, first and foremost.

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- David Winter (@TheAtavism) says:
  
  November 23, 2012 at 7:05 PM
  
  For example did the black ethnic people only vote for Obama because he is black?
  
  I doubt it – Al Gore got 90% of the black vote and Kerry on a little less.
  
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  - coNZervative says:
    
    November 23, 2012 at 7:32 PM
    
    I think a majority did, otherwise how does one explain that 96% of Black voters went with Obama, but much less Hispanics, and much less again Whites. The policies are the same for each group.
  - coNZervative says:
    
    November 24, 2012 at 10:14 AM
    
    It just can’t be true that 96% of all voting Blacks agreed with Obama’s policies and only half Hispanics and Whites. So, it has to be “he is one of us” aspirational demographic-based I think, as well as many other things.
  - David Winter (@TheAtavism) says:
    
    November 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM
    
    Did you delete my earlier comment? It’s 93%, and how your theory fits with Al Gore winning 90% of black voters is beyond me.