The Rachel Maddow Show discusses how Romney is targeting the ‘white vote’ due to his extreme unpopularity with minority voters.
Maddow notes that “Ron Brownstein crunched the numbers at the National Journal in the last few days and determined if white people make up the same proportion of the electorate as they did in ’08, the magic number that Mitt Romney needs to beat among the white voting population is 61%” and goes on to note that
“He needs a higher proportion of the white vote than any Republican candidate has had in 28 years when Ronald Reagan was re-elected with a nearly 20 point overall landslide margin. The only other modern election in which a Republican when a Republican got an even higher proportion of the white vote was Nixon in ’72 when Nixon won the election overall by 25 points, so essentially he won everyone.
Even among people who think Mitt Romney is going to win this election, no one thinks he is going to win it by 19 points the way in which Reagan did or by 25 points the way Nixon did. And in the absense of a landslide, an overall landslide that big, how on earth can you plan to get that huge proportion of white voters? Who knows if it is feasible, but Lord knows he is trying.”
Maddow goes on to discuss how Romney’s entire campaign seems focused on racially charged lies about welfare intended to appeal to white worker class Americans trying to convince them that while they are working hard, their black president is seeking to make welfare easier for others.
“The Romney campaign is running ads about welfare, ads that are blatantly racially charged showing images of hard working white people and telling them that their black president is just going to start handing out welfare checks to people who won’t even look for a job. As a special bonus, the policy claims behind these very racially charges ads had been as thoroughly debunked as the birther nonsense has been. It’s just made up entirely in terms of policy matters. But the Romney campaign is sticking to the strategy of campaigning on welfare as our friend Ezra Lkeo pointed out today on the Washington Post
‘His campaign is running more ads about welfare than just about any other issue. Of the 12 most recent ads posted, five are about welfare. That’s more than the number dedicated to health care (four) or introducing Paul Ryan (one) or the economy (one)'”.
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