Change! Dems Identity Politics Are Working Whites Flee Party in Droves

Dems' Hopey Changey Identity Politics Chasing White Voters Away In Droves
The Democrats' Identity Politics are working, just not exactly the way they "hoped" for. As The National Journal reports ... White voters are now fleeing the liberal-progressive party in droves: By any standard, white voters’ rejection of Democrats in November’s Elections was daunting and even historic. Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican Candidates for the House of Representatives ; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the ...

Poll: Whites Fleeing the Democratic Party in Droves
This should have the race-obsessed left frothing at the mouth. (National Journal)- By any standard, white voters’ rejection of Democrats in November’s Elections was daunting and even historic. Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican Candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the National Election Poll Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research. Not even in Republicans’ 1994 congressional landslide did they win that...

REPORT: Large-scale exodus from Democratic Party of whites...
Right turn: Sen. Marco Rubio’s supporters in Florida included many whites who voted for Obama in 2008. Previously unreleased results from the 2010 Exit Polls show a stark gap between whites and Minorities and a smaller but still significant difference between blue- and white-collar whites. By any standard, white voters’ rejection of Democrats in November’s Elections was daunting and even historic. Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican Candidates for the House ...

No More Czars
Posted by John at 10:58 PM On Wednesday, 29 House Republicans introduced Legislation to do away with "czars," of whom President Obama has appointed an unprecedented number. The bill defines a "czar" as "a head of any Task Force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President, or similar office established by or at the direction of the President" who is appointed to a position that would otherwise require Senate confirmation. This sets up an interesting situation: I assume ...

Where the White People At?
by Jamelle Bouie As a data dump, Ron Brownstein's piece in the National Journal about the "white flight" of voters from the Democratic Party is fantastic. In 2010, 60 percent of whites nationwide supported Republican Candidates for the House of Representatives, an unprecedented gain for the party. Likewise, Republican Senate Candidates improved on their share of the white vote relative to 2008. What's more, white voters show deep hostility to President Obama's agenda. 65 percent of whites disa...

Notable passages of Constitution left out of reading in the House
Notable passages left out: (Text taken from the National Archives' official Constitution site). This Story After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on Slavery The Constitution Notable passages of Constitution left out of reading in the House Special Report: The 112th Congress House begins reciting Constitution Republicans push Repeal of health-care law, reject new CBO estimates on Deficit impact View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story 1. The ...

Some Dems out to deny colleague in own party a Senate seat
The state Senate appears headed toward a historic confrontation Monday, when a group of Democrats plans to ask other senators not to seat an incoming fellow Democrat. Sen. Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup, says he will introduce a resolution to deny a seat to Nick Harper, an Everett Democrat who unseated an Incumbent in a heated and Controversial August primary, then went on to win the General Election. Kastama appears to have the support of at least four other Democrats, who could join with the GOP mi...

The Fix: Democrats' defection from Pelosi is historic
How divided are Democrats' right now? With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party's speaker nominee in nearly a century. The resistance in the Democratic Party to back now-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the ceremonial first vote of the 112th Congress registered higher than at any point since 1913, according to data from the Congressional Research Service. That year, which happens to be the las...

Reid: Tea Party will end
(CNN) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is predicting the demise of the Tea Party movement. "The Tea Party was born because of The Economy," Reid said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" set to air Sunday. "The economy is probably the worst it's ever been except for maybe the Great Depression. The Tea Party will disappear as soon as the economy gets better and the economy's getting better all the time." The Nevada Democrat narrowly won Reelection in November against Sharron Angle, a Tea ...

A MajorityIf You Can Keep It
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. The 112th House of Representatives, which convened for the first time last week, is in many respects a historic one. The Republican majority of 242 representatives is larger than any the party enjoyed from 1994 to 2006. Of course, the Republican Revolution of 1994 broke 40 years of Democratic control of the House, but even the GOP’s brief majority of 1952-54, built on Dwight Eisenhower’s coattails, reached just 221 seats...

Weiner, Crowley lead fight to keep Obamacare
WASHINGTON - New York Democrats are positioning themselves as the key defenders of Health Care reform in the GOP's House effort to Repeal the law next week. Like other Democrats, they've already begun touting the many benefits Republicans want to take back, from Tax Cuts for small businesses to prescription help for seniors. But being New Yorkers, they've kicked it up a notch - even the normally mild-mannered Bronx Rep. Eliot Engel. "This Repeal would act as a virtual death sentence for too ma...

House takes symbolic step to repeal health law
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans cleared a hurdle Friday in their first attempt to scrap President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul, yet it was little more than a symbolic swipe at the law. This Story CBO says Health Care Repeal would deepen Deficit House takes symbolic step to Repeal health law The great health-care debate 44: Boehner: Budget office "entitled to their opinion" on Health Care repeal's deficit impact Kein: Repealing health-care reform would cost $230 billion over 10...

Washington Week
The Senate and the House convened the 112th Congress, passing and adopting mostly routine housekeeping measures and conducting leadership Elections. The Senate opened to a bit of acrimony when the two leaders differed on whether the Senate rules should be changed and how to go about these rules changes without trashing 200-plus years of Senate history. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made an impassioned Speech about how the Senate Democrats have abused their power by how they have legislated over t...

Senate Democrats advocate for filibuster reform
The 112th Congress convened on Wednesday with Senate Democrats working toward rules reform, including weakening the Filibuster.  A filibuster is any attempt to block or delay Senate action using lengthy debate, procedural motions, or other delay tactics.  The filibuster is used by the minority party to stop progress.  In the 100-seat Senate, a simple majority of 51 votes isn't enough to pass Legislation.  The minority party uses the filibuster to ensure that gridlock occurs i...

GOP presses on with repeal of health-care law in House
WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted Friday to begin repealing President Obama's health-care law in an effort to follow-through on a key campaign promise to conservative voters who propelled them to office. The two-paragraph Repeal bill is scheduled for a vote Wednesday. Polls show voters have mixed views of the health-care law. The House voted 236-181 to advance the debate, even as a report this week by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showed that repealing the bill would add...

CBO says health care repeal would deepen deficit
Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal Deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans Uninsured, according to congressional Budget analysts. This Story CBO says Health Care Repeal would deepen deficit House takes symbolic step to Repeal health law The great health-care debate 44: Boehner: Budget office "entitled to their opinion...

House clears way for health-care repeal vote
House Republicans began Friday the long effort to Repeal President Obama's health-care law by approving a resolution that cleared the way for next week's vote. They also devoted time toward cleaning up an embarrassing situation involving two lawmakers who missed Wednesday's swearing-in of the 112th Congress. This Story House clears way for health-care Repeal vote Your Take: Have you noticed a change in the Job Market? CBO says Health Care Repeal would deepen Deficit Unemployment drops to 9.4 ...

Quinn tax hike in trouble
State Rep. Frank Mautino (D-Spring Valley) said Friday “I don’t think there are enough votes” for the tax-hike agreement Gov. Quinn struck with leading Democrats in the Legislature. SRINGFIELD — As the Illinois House returns to the Capitol Sunday, the Income Tax-hike agreement Gov. Quinn struck with the Legislature’s ruling Democrats faces serious questions with time running out. Top allies to House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) said Friday the “framewo...

Quinn tax hike in trouble
State Rep. Frank Mautino (D-Spring Valley) said Friday “I don’t think there are enough votes” for the tax-hike agreement Gov. Quinn struck with leading Democrats in the Legislature. SRINGFIELD — As the Illinois House returns to the Capitol Sunday, the Income Tax-hike agreement Gov. Quinn struck with the Legislature’s ruling Democrats faces serious questions with time running out. Top allies to House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) said Friday the “framewo...

Obama leads all comers in Pennsylvania
Barack Obama would have a harder time winning Pennsylvania than he did in 2008 if he had to stand for Reelection today...but he still leads all of the top Republican contenders for 2012 in the state. What we see in Pennsylvania is a story we've seen before in other key swing states like Ohio and Florida- Obama continues to have under water Approval Ratings but voters nevertheless prefer him to any of the prominent GOP alternatives. The President's approval rating in the state is 46%, with 49% o...

Pursuing racial division
Ron Brownstein has a piece in National Journal about voters' "white flight" from the Democratic Party during the midterms that is bound to get a lot of attention: By any standard, white voters' rejection of Democrats in November's Elections was daunting and even historic. Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican Candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the National Election Poll Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research. Not ev...

White Flight
By any standard, white voters' rejection of Democrats in November's Elections was daunting and even historic. Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican Candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the National Election Poll Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research. Not even in Republicans' 1994 congressional landslide did they win that high a percentage of the white vote. Moreover, those results may understate the extent of the whit...

Rebuilding The Coalition
Rebuilding The Coalition by digby Ron Brownstein points out that a large majority of White People voted Republican in the last election and says this means that he may need a new coalition:Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican Candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the National Election Poll Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research. Not even in Republicans' 1994 congressional landslide did they win that high a percentage ...

Tax Increase? What Tax Increase?
On Monday evening Republican Greg Habeeb met his Democratic opponent, Ginger Mumpower, for their sole joint appearance of the abbreviated campaign to succeed Rep. Morgan Griffith in the Virginia House of Delegates: a Candidate forum sponsored by the Salem PTA. While education was the primary topic of the PTA-sponsored forum, Ms. Mumpower’s record on taxes became the most hotly contested issue of the evening. It’s not uncommon for candidates to experience election-year “conversions”

The Fix: The 10 most vulnerable incumbents
With Republicans gaining a whopping 63 seats in the 2010 election and the decennial redistricting process just beginning to ramp up, uncertainty is the watch word heading into 2012 House election. It's too soon to know who among the giant GOP freshman class will be stars and who will be sub-par performers -- although it's a certainty in class of more than 90 that there will be plenty of both. It's also too early in the redistricting process to know what members will see their districts wiped...