Who are electing Republicans to office

[rusk2003]

I am sitting here doing the math and I would like to know just how are these Right Wing Politicans getting elected. The majority of African Americans,Jews,Latinos,Women,Gays&lesbians, and half of Catholics vote Democrat.

The only majority republicans have are Baptists and White Men and I have come to the conclusion a long time ago their party has been taken over by the Religious Extreamists. especially most of the ones on tv.

[htuttle]

1. Diebold is.

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[jab105]

13. HERE HERE

yep!

[jiacinto]

18. So

Do you think every election a Republican wins is "stolen"?

[sharkbait2]

19. Aside from occasional election fraud...

I think the manner in which political districts are carved is a huge variable in the equation. You don't necessarily need a larger number of votes if you break down the districts to statistically advantageous districts.

[poskonig]

2. We don't turn out our minorities, working women, and professionals.

Once we fix our turnout problem, the Republicans will be forced to moderate their ideology.

[ComerPerro]

3. Right wing extremists are passionate about six things

Hating liberals
Hating minorities
Hating immigrants
Hating homosexuals
Hating muslims
and voting Republican.

[Yupster]

4. Since you asked,

I went back to the 2000 exit poll. Here are all the groups which voted for Bush by 5 % or more over Gore.

Men/ 53-42%
Whites/ 54-42
some college/ 51-45
college grad/ 51-45
makes 50-75k/ 51-46
makes 75-100k/ 52-45
over 100k/ 54-43
married/ 53-44
kids under 18/ 56-41
Republicans (duh)/ 91-8
voted for Dole in 96/ 91-7
voted for Perot in 96/ 64-27
didn't vote in 96/ 52-44
gun in home/ 61-36
Protestant/ 56-42
church more than once a week/ 63-36
church weekly/ 57-40
abortion should be mostly illegal/ 69-29
abortion should be always illegal/ 74-22

Hope this helps. If anyone is interested, I'll create a similar list for who supports the Democrats.

[sugargoose]

6. Please yes

I'd love to see the Dem list.

[Yupster]

10. You asked for it...

Categories of voters who voted for Gore over Bush by 5 % or more in 2000.

women/ 54-43
African-Am's / 90-9
Hispanics/ 62-35
Asian/ 55-41
high school drop-outs/ 59-39
post graduate degree/ 52-44
makes under 15k/ 57-37
makes 15-30k/ 54-41
singles/ 57-38
working women/ 58-39
Democrats/ 86-11
union members/ 62-34
1st time voters/ 52-43
gay/lesbian/ 70-25
voted for Clinton in 96/ 82-15
doesn't use the internet/ 51-46
no gun in home/ 58-39
Jewish/ 79-19
no religion/ 61-30
church once a month/ 51-46
seldom attends church/ 54-42
never attends church/ 61-32
abortion should always be legal/ 70-25
abortion should mostly be legal/ 58-38
northeast/ 56-39
large city/ 71-26
small city/ 57-40

[wrkclskid]

11. Thank you very much

By the way is their a site where u get this info? I would love to know, that way I can get the info myself and no bug u! :-)

[Yupster]

21. I did a yahoo search for exit polls 2000

Came up with CNN

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/index.epolls.html

[wrkclskid]

22. thanks

Always like poruing over such data, to find a way to engineer a take over.

[TennesseeWalker]

12. Yep...that's pretty much my registered Indendent's observations...

...as a vision of who and why people vote for republicans. Prudish and scared people, and people who are afraid of people who aren't like them. Pretty much most of them, but not all of them. Resistance to change. Don't like the new world they see forming around them, and are dedicated to slowing it down so their kind (people that think like them, not necesarrily just race).

Slowdown people, I calls 'em.

[spooky3]

16. it also includes people who tend to be "haves"

sometimes obtained because they were given unfair advantages at the expense of women, blacks, etc. , though they refuse to acknowledge that. So they want to preserve what they have.

[Yupster]

23. Just to add my own summary...

I'd say there are some stark differences between the parties.

The poorer you are the more likely you are to be a Democrat.
The less educated you are, the more likely you are to be a Democrat.*

There are also a couple of single issues that break really sharply.

If you have a gun, you're probably a Republican.
If you are want abortion to remain legal, you're probably a Democrat.
If you eat Wednesday night supper at church, you're probably a Republican

* There's an asterist next to education, because as you go up the education levels, people vote more Republican until you get to the last step, which is a post-grad degree. This group votes Democratic. I think this is a matter of occupation more than education. The group in America that overwhelms every other group in number of post-grad degrees is educators. In your local public school, maybe more than half of the teachers have master's degrees. I have one and so does my wife (both ex-teachers). Teachers often get them over a few years at nights and over the summers. Since teachers are such a huge group of workers in every community, their numbers overwhelm, people getting master's degrees in other fields. Besides the learning, teachers get an extra stipend on the salary schedule (usually around $ 2,000 depending on the district), so when the question is "Do you have a Master's Degree?", the question might as well be, "Are you a teacher?" And, most of us know that teachers are one of the solid base voting groups of the Democratic Party.

To give another example. I'm looking at my Fantasy Football magazine. If you were to ask the top rated 50 running backs of this magazine which party they belong to, you would likely get 44 of them saying Democratic and 6 saying Republican. You could spend a lot of research dollars trying to figure out what traits of a running back would make them vote so overwhelmingly Denmocratic? Then when you brought them into the room, you'd figure it out quick enough. You'd see 49 black men and one white man (Mike Allstott). Black men are going to vote Democratic in overwhelming numbers, regardless of occupation, income, region or anything else. In fact in the last election 90 % of African-Americans voted for Al Gore. In the same election, 85 % of self-identified Democratic voters voted for Al Gore. How's that for a base vote?

In the same way, you could wonder what about a master's degree would make you vote more likely Democratic, but then when you got them in a room and asked the 100 of them how many are teachers or professors and 65 of them raised their hand, you'd know all you needed to know. Oh they're teachers. Of course they vote Democratic.

[wrkclskid]

7. That list would be helpful

Also what does "some college" mean?

[spooky3]

15. that you've gone a year or two but haven't graduated

[JohnKleeb]

26. yeah kids under 18

in mock polls really liked Bush. Damn morons "I like Bush because of the tax cut" greedy bastards. Scuse me while I give my generation a :puke:

[TheYellowDog]

5. Half of

Catholics OVERALL vote Democrat. Most white catholics vote Republican. Check your 2000 statistics. And we didn't have a huge lead in the women's vote overall in 2000 either. Also, we lost white women voters in 2000.

Race by Sex All Gore Bush Buchanan Nader
White Males 48 % 36 % 60 % 0 % 3 %
White Females 52 % 48 % 49 % 0 % 2 %

We need more white votes if we are to win in 2004.

[TennesseeWalker]

8. Electoral College.

Plus, scared white people vote more often.

[okieinpain]

9. I've been wondering how this K-rap is happening also

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[jab105]

14. Protestants....

my mother hates everything the republicans stand for but votes republican because she thinks democrats are all going to hell/.

[Clete]

17. You wouldn't believe the number of dirt poor white

people, who vote Republican because they believe that the Democrats are going to interfere with their personal lives, tax them to death and take their guns away from them.

[jiacinto]

20. Well I can sympathize on some level

Read the book "Why the White Working Class Still Matters".

[Yupster]

24. My guess

If you wonder why many poor whites vote Republican, I would call them and ask, but not on a Wednesday night, because they're probably up at church.

That's one of the biggest political chasms in the numbers.

[farmboxer]

25. The Republican Manufactured And Programmed Voting Machines!

Republicans own the voting machines, the corporations and the media.