Monday, March 17, 2008

The Importance of the White Male Vote

I will take a stab at election reporting in the zevian vein:

The Washington Post ran an article today with the headline: White Male Vote Especially Critical

The article stated:
In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing constituency.

In which elections in the past history of the United States have white men not emerged as "perhaps the single critical swing constituency"?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Female voters have long outnumbered male voters. Perhaps you feel the many thousands of elections over the past bunch of decades don't count for some reason or another.

Shmuli

Zev said...

I think I less report and more grand stand from my soap box.