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The 2012 Election Map if Only White Men Could Vote

Under pre-1870 voting laws

Nov 11, 2012 by Mary Noble

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Image: Buzzfeed and CNN

Since Tuesday, Obama's re-election by a rainbow coalition of Hispanic, black, and female Americans has been the subject of endless comment by left and right alike.

His re-election depended on votes from groups who couldn't vote under America's original voting laws – until the 15th amendment gave non-white men the vote in 1870, the 19th amendment gave women the vote in 1920, and the 24th amendment abolished poll taxes in 1964. Without those amendments, the 2012 election would look very different, as the map above shows (via Buzzfeed).

If only white men could vote, then just five states would have elected Obama - Washington, Oregon, Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts - which means that in those states alone, more than 50% of white men voted blue.

Map via Buzzfeed.

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RealHonesTruth

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This article is stupid. First of all if only White men could vote, I'm sure President Obama would not be running for office.
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I would vote for someone of the opposite race if they shared my ideology versus someone of the same race who doesn't share my ideology. What are you getting at?
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@PoliticsPerson I liked Herman Cain, but the Dems dug up dirt on him to force him out. How dare a Black man run for president as a Republican in their eyes. Still the same old slave-owning Democrats of old, that's all.
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CharlieRosencr

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@methinks how dare a serial sexual predator and misogynist run for president.
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@PoliticsPerson
If only white men could vote do you think black men would be allowed to even run much less get a major party's nomination?
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PoliticsPerson

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@methinks Indeed. All aboard the Cain Train! ;-)
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George_BayArea

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Makes me laugh! Like a bad white comedian joke.
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MRMacrum

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Reminds me of something George Carlin might come up with.
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FFX_VA

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Why is Politix so focused on race today? It's Veteran's Day, focus on service to country.
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bsking

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amen.
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mimi57

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Double Amen and thank you for your service!(:
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Jasonopolis

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Triple Amen.
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CanisCanemEdit

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I was wondering the same thing.

It seems to me that PolitixMary is totally focused on getting the racist responses but totally ignoring all the fine men and women of all races who have given some and all to allow her to post these idiot stories.

To those who served, to those who were injured and to those who died at the direction of ALL American Presidents...

..."Thank You" seems such a small thing to say.
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ir0nw0lfe

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Good point.
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MBernard

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If only white men could vote, then only white men would be able to run for president. DUH
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marine1

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If only white men could vote, mary might have to find a job.
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Penn1699

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This is fantasy. Every American citizen votes regardless of race. This is a fantasy question.
Have you forgot that our dear leader is half black, half white?
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FollowTheMoney

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Women are emotional...Men are rational.
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Dan_Tien

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I don't know why people say that women are more emotional than men, when it is usually men that are ready to fight at the drop of a hat.
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FollowTheMoney

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@Dan_Tien I don't know either, I just heard that one time .
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Nemesis3X

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Women and liberals!
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bsking

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they're looking for someone to say " ahhh for good ol days"

so we can keep the focus on racial tensions
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twittromney

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Only 13 percent of the population in the United States is black..
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tomincali

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and what % of that number voted obama?
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AceLuby

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@tomincali The same % that voted for Kerry, Gore, Clinton, etc... mid 90's.
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MRMacrum

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"Why do you think women and men vote differently?"

Because women seem to have their feet planted a tad firmer on the ground. They tend to worry about real things like, food, clothing, etc. Men tend to look past the here and now and conjure up scenarios of Hell or Heaven.
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bsking

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that's quite a sexist opinion isn't it. why didn't you include their "worries" of humidity and the effects on split ends?
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MRMacrum

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@bsking - I'll let you cover the sexist end. You seem better equipped.
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bsking

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@MRMacrum it was your main point.
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MRMacrum

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@bsking - What was my main point? That women seem to be better grounded than us loose dog males? If that is sexist, so be it. It is what I think. I
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CharlieRosencr

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@bsking funny how you call it sexist when the comment is aimed at your gender.
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Jasonopolis

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This doesn't matter nearly as much as a similar study (which should be done) of working voters vs. welfare/government assistance voters. In other words, how with the map look if all of the voters who were a burden on the tax system were removed? Any sane society would consider such a voter a conflict of interest....
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bsking

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they wouldn't dare put that map up
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FollowTheMoney

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Good point. The pollsters should include all forms of welfare.....Corporate as well as individual.
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Jasonopolis

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@FollowTheMoney Well that would be fine with me, except that corporations do not vote...
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FollowTheMoney

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@Jasonopolis Oh yes they do. Corporations vote every time they write a check to a politician or lobbyist firm.
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Waynestew

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I think everyone would get a surprise if that Matt were put up. Starting with the right wing.
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mimi57

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The majority of young women are more worried about their birth control, abortion on demand issues that was used as a scare tactic by the Left and the Liberal media...I think their brains are in their vagina's !!!
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FollowTheMoney

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Heh heh heh..that's funny. My daughter voted for Obama because he's cuter than Romney. :-/
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mimi57

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@FollowTheMoney It is and it isn't , a lot of it's true... FYI~ I'm voting for Marco Rubio in 2016 because he's* really
cute!!! LOL
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@FollowTheMoney It wasn't a scare tactic by the left. You had TWO Republican candidates for Senate basically saying that if a woman became pregnant because of rape, she should not be allowed to have an aborion. You had Paul Ryan being a co-sponsor of a personhood bill which would have granted FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS TO A FETUS..THUS MAKING ABORTION MURDER. You have the abortion plank in the Republical Party platform basically saying that ALL ABORTIONS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!! So..it was the Reublican Party's beliefs that scared so many women!!! Four more years!!!!
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mimi57

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@TBS That should go to me and not to FTM, and I say...Baloney!!!
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bsking

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I was thinking along that line too but was a bit hesitant.
I would have said it this way ( thanks in part to the obama ad campaign);

women vote with their vagina's ,

while men are motivated to do most everything by their penis..
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Romney2012

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They both think differently
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Zazziness

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That has to be the scariest bit of data I've seen in a long, long time. I'm sure glad we're more diverse than that!
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IraqWarVeteran

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It's our history from 1860s and the voter rights in that time.
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Lpguy

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Women are more emotional. It's great when it goes into a nice dinner, not so much when they vote!
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MRMacrum

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"Women are more emotional. It's great when it goes into a nice dinner, not so much when they vote!"

If the manly replies on this site are any indication, I would say you have bass ackwards. The ladies seem to be keeping their heads better than us men folk. Just sayin.
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mimi57

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Yeah, kinda like going out with a Liberal man...too emotional and a little whiny. LOL
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Lpguy

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@MRMacrum although my post is a joke, I do not believe in the ladies are keeping theirs heads better. They clearly did not vote in favor of liberty or the constitution. They just want change
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Lpguy

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@mimi57 hey, if you can get him to shower the evening could go any direction lol
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MRMacrum

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@Lpguy - "They clearly did not vote in favor of liberty or the constitution."

Clearly
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IDLC

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Obviously white men need to grow a pair and get their women in line. Also, this shows that white men are more racially accepting than black men and women. Be nice.
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CoIntelProMike

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I agree. In the history of our Civil Rights, The hardest voting demographic in america: former black slave, single woman.
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Jasonopolis

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Here is an example of what some of these people mean by women are more emotional, and this is right out of our own headlines about Gen. Petraeus love affair. "A Woman Scorned? It is being claimed that the affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell emerged after she sent threatening emails to an alleged love rival from the retired general's own Gmail account"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-22312...
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Dan_Tien

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Got any headlines about men murdering their wives and their lovers?
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Jasonopolis

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@Dan_Tien What does that have to do with anything said here?
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Dan_Tien

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@Jasonopolis Emotion gets displayed in different ways.
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Fishbone345

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"Why do you think women and men vote differently?"
Uh... Because we're different? I would think that was obvious. Unlike some, I won't pretend I know why people do things, or make blanket statements without true knowledge.
I think the best insight I could get into why a woman does something is to ask her why, and listen.
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RobertJHarsh

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But I believe white women would have vote for Romney if he and his guys just kept quiet on the abortion factory outlet and 2 legit 2 rape. Romney would have still lost because white women are not enough to overcome the underclass but it would have at least not made it look like only white men vote Republican.
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Fishbone345

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@RobertJHarsh I don't really care. The election is over and I've moved past it. You should try that too.
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RobertJHarsh

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@Fishbone345 It's kinda hard to move past the fact the underclass non-producers class are majority of this country now. Obama now has zero reason to fix the economy and every reason to punish those who work hard and succeed. The US will be a South Africa or Venezuela in 15-20 years.
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Fishbone345

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@RobertJHarsh Oh good, more rhetoric.
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RobertJHarsh

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@Fishbone345 Ok...before we can continue a meaningful discussion, please review the current state of unemployment in this country, under-employment, and the number of people on state assistance as a means of their primary income. Once you research this, you will discover that roughly 54% of the country falls in that category. Now I am quite sure that many of them want to work but the majority of Obama's electorate not only DON'T work but have no interest in working. They want their stuff. And its not a race thing. All races and all genders on are the Obama stuff machine, paid for by the 47% of people who do work and pay taxes into the system. It's not rhetoric...it's 8th grade math.
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CoIntelProMike

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Ignorance. Pure whiteness, and those who owned land could
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One of many Stupid and Mindless Stories By Politix that make no sense to anyone.
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LetsAllBeHappy

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this is a stupid topic-why are we going back over a hundred years?
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The obvious failures of today.
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