MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show November 5, 2013
Stark. Same thing in the president ial race in texas in 2008. It was barack obama running against john mccain. White voters went for the republican by this huge margin. This does not mean that 47 of white people voted republican in texas. It means that white people voted for john mccain by a 47point margin. Black voters picked the democratic candidate for president by a 96point margin. The black vote in 2008 in texas was 982 for barack obama. For latinos it was a similar huge margin for the democrats. The democratic ticket did better than the republican ticket among latino voters in 2008 by a ...