Jersey Jazzman: Obama's Education Policies Will Alienate His Base

Jersey Jazzman: Obama's Education Policies Will Alienate His Base:

Obama's Education Policies Will Alienate His Base

by Duke

Charles Blow explains how Obama won:

President Obama and his formidable campaign machine out-performed the Republicans, holding together a winning coalition that is the face of America’s tomorrow: young voters, urban voters, racially and ethnically diverse voters and women voters.

According to exit polls, Obama won 60 percent of the 18 to 29 year old vote and 52 percent of the 30-40 vote. He won 69 percent of the vote in big cities and 58 percent of the vote in mid-sized cities. He won 93 percent of the black vote and more than 70 percent of both the Asian vote and the Hispanic vote. He won over half of the female vote. And he won 76 percent of the gay, lesbian and bisexual vote. 

Mitt Romney won the white vote, the male vote, the elderly vote, the small cities vote and