The changing demographics cannot be obscured by pithy bumper sticker slogans
From CNN.com -- "President Obama won the 2012 presidential election by accumulating some of the most one-sided electoral constituencies in modern political history.
Looking at a breakdown of the 2012 election exit polling, Obama won the 18- to 29-year-old vote 60% to 37%, in spite of the fact that half of all recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.
He won women by 11 points and unmarried women by an incredible 36 points. The marriage gap was far greater than the gender gap.
Obama won African-Americans with 93% of the vote, virtually unchanged from the 95% he won in 2008.
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Latinos, one of the fastest growing demographics, went 71% to 27% in favor of Obama. And he won with Asians by a similarly enormous margin.
Among those who make less than $50,000 a year, Obama won 60% to 38%.
Looking at a breakdown of the 2012 election exit polling, Obama won the 18- to 29-year-old vote 60% to 37%, in spite of the fact that half of all recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.
He won women by 11 points and unmarried women by an incredible 36 points. The marriage gap was far greater than the gender gap.
Obama won African-Americans with 93% of the vote, virtually unchanged from the 95% he won in 2008.
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Latinos, one of the fastest growing demographics, went 71% to 27% in favor of Obama. And he won with Asians by a similarly enormous margin.
Among those who make less than $50,000 a year, Obama won 60% to 38%.
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