[Jihsan]

How does the total number of votes break down by race in 2012?

White 72 per cent of voters
African American 13 per cent
Hispanic 10 per cent
Asian 3 per cent

How does this compare to 2008?

White 74 per cent
African American 13 per cent
Hispanic 9 per cent
Asian 2 per cent

And in 2004?

White 77 per cent
African American 11 per cent
Hispanic 8 per cent
Asian 2 per cent

How did people vote in 2012?
White 39 per cent for Obama, 59 per cent for Romney
African American 93 per cent Obama, 6 per cent Romney
Hispanic 71 per cent Obama, 27 per cent Romney
Asian 73 per cent Obama, 26 per cent Romney

Compared to 2008?

White 43 per cent Obama, 55 per cent McCain
African American 95 per cent Obama, 4 per cent McCain
Hispanic 67 per cent Obama, 31 per cent McCain



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The Republicans need ethnic supporters. Ha ha!

[Istanbuller]

It's demographics, stupid !

[Rainbow Crow]

It's on Boehner to trade immigration reform for revenue increases, the only way that these trends would be meaningfully curtailed, but I don't see him as doing that.

[nucklepunche]

Another reason they lost. Most of the people who voted on health care voted for Obama. I saw this coming though Republicans expected it to be the opposite. Yet a lot of people who benefitted from Obamacare it is purely their self interest to vote Obama. A lot of those who opposed it intensely opposed it on purely ideological grounds but would have opposed Obama and all aspects of liberalism no matter what. In other words Obama may have drawn in some people in the middle who benefitted from Obamacare whereas hardly anybody went to Romney over Obamacare that was not already on his site. It made them a bit angrier but it isn't like they weren't going to the polls otherwise. They said the Republican base was energized but the Republican base always votes Republican. Their base stayed the exact same. The paring down came from the fact that fewer people voted and most of those who didn't vote this time that did last time which benefitted Republicans a bit more, but interestingly while Obama got less votes than last time Romney got less votes overall than McCain, which shocked me.