I'm just trying to tell you that we have nothing in common besides both of us liking your penis.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Nov 09, 2012 1:35:14 pm PST #151 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, I can come pick it up at your center tomorrow? No I can't, you fuckers! Someone's supposed to call me back.


Jesse - Nov 09, 2012 1:37:02 pm PST #152 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, white women are obviously the worst.


Laura - Nov 09, 2012 1:46:31 pm PST #153 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Not verified with statistical evidence, but just observation. The Hispanic vote in S Florida has a wide South as well as Latin American origin. There has been a shift from conservative Republican to Progressive Democrat. A lot of it is generational. Catholic pro-life anti-communism very conservative in both social and economic issues ruled when I first moved here 30 some years ago. Now the Hispanic population is as mixed on social and economic issues as the rest of our population. The Immigration policy is yet another matter. Not even policy so much as perceived bigotry. Do I vote for them that wish my parents never came here or those that embrace diversification.

My polls are not based on a huge sampling, but my routine encounters with fellow Floridians has shown a dramatic shift in political affiliation. They also had to endure a change from Republican governors like Jeb and Charlie with sensible views on Immagration to our current sorry excuse for a governor who may have personally driven a number of citizens away from the Republican Party.

I don't know if this is the case in other states.


Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2012 1:54:05 pm PST #154 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Also, white women are obviously the worst.

C’mon, it’s not like they’re white men.


Amy - Nov 09, 2012 2:00:47 pm PST #155 of 30001
Because books.

Indeed, as a proportion of the total, more white women voted for Romney on Tuesday than voted for George W. Bush, in 2004, or for John McCain, in 2008.

That makes me really sad.


Burrell - Nov 09, 2012 2:06:59 pm PST #156 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh, the kinds of trouble he will get when he has an amazon acct.

Yeah, that has occurred to me.

Poor noodle got so wound up about having to call me that he ended up in the nurse's office feeling queasy and in need of a lie down.


askye - Nov 09, 2012 2:07:39 pm PST #157 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

Here's a NY Times article that talks about the Latino vote and why it was up this year [link]

One of the interesting things it mentions is

In many states, Latinos did not wait for either the Democratic or the Republican campaigns to come to them. Instead they mounted coordinated voter registration and education efforts, giving them a degree of independence as a voting bloc and creating popular networks that they said they planned to mobilize again to bring pressure on the White House and Congress.


askye - Nov 09, 2012 2:09:20 pm PST #158 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

And Salon had this interesting number 80% of Mormons voted for Bush, but only 78% voted for Romney


Typo Boy - Nov 09, 2012 2:11:11 pm PST #159 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

The bigotry is a big part of it. If you are non-white it is hard to miss the huge open bigotry and even hatred of non-whites within the Republican party. When a lot of Republicans went beyond opposing Sonia Maria Sotomayor on policy grounds for the Supreme Court and called her a "lightweight" and pretended that she got ahead because of the huge advantages that come with being born poor and brown skinned, what exactly they were saying was pretty obvious. The Republican leadership forgot that "dogwhistle" is a metaphor, and that in point of fact when they use coded racism, people of color actually can break that code. I mean if you suffer racism regularly, you probably get pretty good at spotting it.


Strix - Nov 09, 2012 2:17:21 pm PST #160 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Indeed, as a proportion of the total, more white women voted for Romney on Tuesday than voted for George W. Bush, in 2004, or for John McCain, in 2008.

I'd like to see that broken down by age. I know not a SINGLE white female friend of mine did nor my sister (mid 30's to 40) or my mom (68). And most of my /friends/family live in MO...yanno, literally 5 blocks away from me. And I very strongly suspect some of my white female relatives in MO who, sadly IMHO, voted Romney did NOT vote for Akin...

ETA: And Typo, ITA