Everything a conservative needs to win state and national elections lies in the exit poll numbers. I first noticed these strategic gems following Mitt Romney’s 2012 defeat. The media echo chamber was still in high gear, revving up the public to believe that “white men” were Romney’s “only” constituency…….Then I realized the exit polls didn’t tell the same story the media were telling.
According to these numbers, it wasn’t really “white men”
and Romney against the world. Romney had other constituencies...... a majority of white women voted Republican in 2012, a
majority of white women voted Republican in Virginia this week….white women
voted for Romney over Obama, 56 percent to 42 percent…..white women voted for
Cuccinelli over McAuliffe, 54 percent to 38 percent.
This voting pattern turns the
media’s favorite anti-conservative smack-paddle, the “gender gap,” into a
racial gap. Black women, for example, voted for Barack Obama in 2012, 96
percent to 3 percent. In Virginia this week, black women voted for Terry
McAuliffe, 91 percent to 7 percent. What does this tell us? …….conservative
candidates shouldn’t pay consultants to coach them to sound more like Democrats
on so-called “women’s issues” because 1) it is unprincipled, 2) it never works,
and 3) it never works because we are looking at an array of issues besides
“gender.” There’s a fourth reason: The last thing conservatives should base
political strategy on is Democratic and media spin..... Read More »
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