bjkeefe: I was going to make a sex joke about Newt Gingrich and Alabama ...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

I was going to make a sex joke about Newt Gingrich and Alabama ...

... but then the section underneath it left me laughing even harder. Or crying. One of those.

Alabama GOP 2012 primary results, showing this much contribution from all non-white voters: '-'

(click to see the little horizontal lines that mean "insigificant," full size!)

You don't actually need me to link to the Wikipedia page on Southern Strategy, do you?

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2 comments:

Jack said...: Andrew Sullivan has been tracking this -- the black vote (and other minority votes -- in GOP primaries all season, and it turns out that the 2% is Alabama is much higher (like, 100% higher) than the black vote in most of the other states. The norm has been 0%-1%.

That's the modern GOP. And it's our country.; 8:05 PM, March 14, 2012
Jack said...: Oh, did I say "modern" GOP? I meant "GOP since 1964." I guess that's "modern" by some definition of modern.; 8:06 PM, March 14, 2012

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