{"id":9043,"date":"2009-11-01T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2009-11-01T23:32:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:32:38","slug":"the-white-male-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9043","title":{"rendered":"The White Male Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard it before, but it&#8217;s always neat to see a map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/white_male_obama_vote.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/white_male_obama_vote-440x500.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"white_male_obama_vote\" width=\"440\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9044\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/11\/white-men-are-not-very-progressive.php\">Matt<\/a>, who got it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/diary\/15782\/2008-electorate-alternate-history\">Openleft<\/a>, at a link which is currently dead but which I hope will revive. Matt writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;progressive politics is badly disadvantaged by a situation in which the overwhelming majorities of political leaders and prominent media figures are white men. There are plenty of white men with progressive views, but in general the majority of white men are not progressive and the majority of progressives are not white men. Drawing from the relatively small pool of white male progressives means drawing from a shallow talent pool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard it before, but it&#8217;s always neat to see a map: Via Matt, who got it from Openleft, at a link which is currently dead but which I hope will revive. Matt writes: &#8230;progressive politics is badly disadvantaged by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9043\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}