Obama Performance with White Voters on Par with Other Democrats
Domenico Montanaro, NBC News, November 19, 2012
Expanding on our election autopsy report in First Thoughts this morning about the white vote, since 1976, Democrats have never won white voters. {snip}
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WHITE VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
2012: 72% of electorate, Romney 59, Obama 39
2008: 74% of electorate, McCain 55, Obama 43
2004: 77% of electorate, Bush 58, Kerry 41
2000: 81% of electorate, Bush 55, Gore 42
1996: 83% of electorate, Dole 46, Clinton 44 (Perot 9)
1992: 87% of electorate, Bush 41, Clinton 39 (Perot 21)
1988: 85% of electorate, Bush 60, Dukakis 40
1984: 86% of electorate, Reagan 66, Mondale 34
1980: 88% of electorate, Reagan 56, Carter 36 (Anderson 8)
1976: 89% of electorate, Ford 52, Carter 48
AVERAGE DEMOCRATIC WHITE VOTE SHARE: 40.6%
TOP DEMOCRATIC WHITE-VOTE GETTERS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
1. Carter (1976) — 48%
2. Clinton (1996) — 44
3. Obama (2008) — 43
4. Gore — 42
5. Kerry — 41
6. Dukakis — 40
7. Clinton(1992) — 39
7. Obama (2012) — 39
9. Carter (1980) — 36
10. Mondale — 34
SOURCE: Exit polls/Roper Center, University of Connecticut