Romney relies on shrinking pool of white male votes

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/11/us-usa-campaign-whites-idUSBRE89A07C20121011

Romney relies on shrinking pool of white male votes
By Samuel P. Jacobs

(Reuters) - With the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama tightening, the Republican needs one group more than any other to drive him to the White House: white men.

For Romney, the support of white male voters offers the likeliest path to the presidency, even as betting on white men is proving an increasingly risky proposition for Republicans.

His reliance on that voter group becomes more acute as polls show him far behind with African-Americans, lagging badly among Hispanics, and at a disadvantage with women in many polls, despite overall poll numbers showing him essentially tied with Obama in recent days.

Ninety percent of Republican voters were white in 2008, according to exit polls, while white women tend to be more evenly split between the two parties. ...

[Summer Hathaway]

1. “We’re not generating enough angry white guys

to stay in business for the long term.”

For once, Lindsay Graham got it right.