Whit Ayres’ comments appearing on the U.S. News and World Report Ballot 2012 blog regarding the electorate and challenges facing the presidential candidates:
Ayres offered up as Obama’s toughest polling number the flipside of Romney’s Hispanic issue—non-college educated whites.
“President Obama got 42 percent of the white vote in 2008; he’s now in the low- to mid-30’s,” he said. “It has nothing to do with somehow our country getting more racist over the last 3 ½ years. It has everything to do with the fact that President Obama has governed like a veteran liberal who has believed—and demonstrated through his words that he believes—blue collar whites are bitter people who cling to their guns and religion.”
Ayres said Romney’s path to victory may rest on winning a higher percentage of white voters than 2008 nominee John McCain.
“Mitt Romney could very well move the percentage of the total white vote from the 54 percent that John McCain got to 60 percent or maybe more in 2012 and if he does that he stands a very good chance of getting elected,” he said.
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