election, most new registrants are under 30 and nearly all four and five are youth, women 4 in 5 are youth, women, african-american or latino. well, what the minority proportion of the electorate is could be the key to the election. whites were 74% in 2080. that number has come down in each of the last five presidential elections. if it keeps coming down, that s huge for obama because he s dominating african-americans and they have a high turnout propensity. latinos he s dominating but they show less interest in the race. young voters show less interest in the rate. with erlarly voting, romney s ahead by 15 points among people who say they re going to vote election day. how do the two things wash out? i do think it s clear that obama has an advantage electorally. i don t believe mitt romney has momentum anymore.
morning, the editor of the new york times sunday magazine. earlier today, mitt romney went in search of something he had not looked for before, the african-american vote. despite an awkward start i do love that music. i have to tell you, i do love listening to that organ music. things hummed along smoothly until he decided to take on the president s health care plan. i m going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find. that includes obamacare and i m going to work to reform and save [ audience booing ] and sell the idea that he would be the best president for african-americans. if you want a president who will make things better in the african-american community, you are looking at him.
said, a replay partly of 2000. when you had george bush who went out as a compassionate conservative and he wasn t really trying to be necessarily compassionate to black voters. he was really trying to tell swing voters, swing white voters, independents, that you know, i m not as bad as you think i am, nor is this party. i think this is a part of a replay in a very closely contested race. and it s worth noting that george w. bush eventually gave up on relations with the naacp saying he had a virtually nonexistent relationship with them. i do wonder if it does change the minds of independent voters who saw that. the best moments were when romney was being self-effacing, even in the beginning when he said he was speaking before the vice president and hoped the naacp didn t think he was playing favorites. it helps, right? because if as martin luther king argued vociferously that african-american people were the bellwether for the moral center and the moral gravity of the nation, then
who are not just african-american people and when professor harris talks about latinos in immigrant communities and gay and lesbian people, obama has not self-identified as latino or gay. which means this. that if you are the person, when disraeli was the first jewish prime minister, he had to say i m not trying to diss christian people. it s unfortunate, but real. what black people see, and i ll be quiet really? hold on. they see every day that the enemies of barack obama have been racially motivated with subtle racial animus towards him and no matter what we say about criticizing him, they know this man is under assault. we are in an election cycle we are in an election cycle. he was elected in an election cycle. it s an open question whether the first black president could have run with an overtly explicit racial agenda in terms of policy prescriptions. you know, i think it s something we debate and consider
talk about this tan great jonathan capehart sort of rebutted some of the points in your op-ed, saying the president has done a lot for african-americans and the community, though not specifically targeting them, enacting policies that will help them, whether health care, whether reforming penal codes, whether speaking to the family structure and african-american sort of fatherhood issues on father s day. what do you make of that thesis? professor harris is one of our leading intellectuals and enlivened the debate that has gone on for so long that people are unaware of, especially outside the african-american community. this ain t nothing new. what professor harris is talking about is race-specific targeted outcomes for african-american people so that the policies that are crafted speak directly to the issues that they are concerned with, and that has been a heroic legacy as they enjoyed a heroic legacy in african-american communities, as newer black politicians have arisen, what they