Muffin didn't realize his '47%,' a big chunk are his base, white men....
The battle for white men
By LOIS ROMANO | 9/26/12 4:39 AM EDT
BURLINGTON, Iowa - They arrived here in droves in the pouring rain to hear Vice President Joe Biden, an ocean of white guys. There were men in overalls and some in suits, hardcore Democrats and wavering Republicans, undecideds and first-time voters, the unemployed and the angry.
After decades of taking a back seat to the growing voting demographics of women and Latinos, middle-class white men are finding themselves front and center again. They are being intensely targeted and wooed by the left and right, as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney fight to hold together their fragile coalitions and lay claim to the ever-shrinking slice of uncertain voters.
“White men are significant and they are in play,” says Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, who for 30 years has closely tracked the political migration patterns of white working-class men.
“They swung to Obama in 2008 and they swung back Republican in 2010. Now there is evidence that they might be swinging back because they have doubts about Mitt Romney.”
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