What happened last night was a demographic time bomb that had been ticking and that blew up in GOP faces. As the Obama campaign had assumed more than a year ago, the white portion of the electorate dropped to 72%, and the president won just 39% of that vote. But he carried a whopping 93% of black voters (representing 13% of the electorate), 71% of Latinos (representing 10%), and also 73% of Asians (3%). What’s more, despite all the predictions that youth turnout would be down, voters 18-29 made up 19% of last night’s voting population -- up from 18% four years ago -- and President Obama took 60% from that group.
-- First Read (http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/11/the-republican-minority-has-arrived.html)
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-- First Read (http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/11/the-republican-minority-has-arrived.html)