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31 for McCain.
Blacks and American Indian voters went overwhelmingly to Obama. (both over 90 percent, I believe.) Women went for Obama.
Because of minority population growth key voting demographics and strategies for winning elections are evolving. The reason the map was so Blue outside of the Deep South is simple. There aren't enough older White Men to go around for the Republican Party. There aren't enough White Evangelicals either. There aren't enough exorbitantly wealthy and greedy Republican supporters anymore either. While Obama, Howard Dean and Dems around the country were looking to reach out and expand the party base, the Republicans were narrowing theirs as much as possible. McCain is a guy who has some accomplishments on his resume that might make him appealing to Hispanics and Indians, for example, but to get the nomination he had to turn his back on all of that. His past positions on tax cuts and the Fundamentalist Right may have made him attractive to some independents too, but he had to sell his soul, again, just to get the nomination.
Republicans have no viable base anymore. They can't govern and they don't appeal to minority groups or the working class, outside of religion and tapping into ignorance. They have no strategy at all to win the votes of women. Nothing.
If Dems play their cards right, and continue reaching out to all demographics, the 67 percent of Hispanics, for example, might get up to 80 percent. And as their population grows the Dems have solidified a massive voting bloc for decades to come.....
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