Here are statistics political pundits and others need to chew on. A Latino colleague sent me this NYTimes link to a fascinating exit survey on the November 2006 U.S. midterm House of Reps election. According to Edison Media Research & Mitofsky International, overall White women and men voted 52% Republican. Every counted group of people of colour voted majority Democrat.
I say every counted group because for some reason Edison/Mitofsky chose to exclude American Indian voters. Edison/Mitofsky also condescendingly refers to people of colour as "non-whites". To put it bluntly, both of these things stink and in future posts I'll be following these issues: the constant, daily exclusion of American Indian people from virtually every U.S. poll and everything else, and the use of this idiotic, pejorative negation "non-white".
Regarding votes for Democrats, whites voted just 48% compared to Black voters who cast 89% - eighty-nine - for Democrats, Latinos ("Hispanics") 70% Dem and Asians 62%. Although Edison/Mitofsky refers to people collectively as "non-whites", they seem to have "forgotten" to publish the average of these votes for Blacks plus Latinos plus Asians. So I took the liberty of doing it. The totals are about 73% for Democrats to about 27% for Republicans among all voters of colour. NYTimes says the polling firm interviewed more than 13-thousand voters as they exited 249 polling places.
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