HuffPo Asks: “Should Dems Dump Whitey?”

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The Huffington Post has invited a number of notable political commentators to chew over this question: “Should The Dems Love White Guys, Or Dump Them?” The consensus seems to be that writing off fully a third of eligible voters would be unwise, though there was some dissent. Thomas Schaller, a professor at the University of Maryland, explained:

In the past half-century white men fell from about half of all voters to a third, and while that is still a significant chunk of the electorate, in business terms that’s called a declining market share. Neither party, at this point, would be wise to invest too much attention or effort cultivating their votes, especially since large swaths of white males are not swing voters anyway.

And Michael Tomasky, editor-at-large for the American Prospect, wouldn’t urge Democrats to actually make any substantive policy changes in order to bolster their support among white males, but he would have Democrats act a little more…manly?

Talk about sports, go to a football game, drink some beer, fly fish, use salty and mildly inappropriate language once or twice. Of course the candidate has to actually LIKE sports, football, beer, fly fishing, and salty language.

Who could Tomasky possibly have in mind with a description like that? But look at the HuffPolitics reporters in the right hand column. Notice anything? I wonder if Arianna has pondered the implications of dumping white male reporters as well….

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