White Vote Still Key

The New York Post shares a statistic you rarely see cited, but quite likely to be true.

Mitt Romney would have lost the 2012 election even if he had nabbed 70% of the Latino vote, 43 points more than he actually got. But he would have prevailed if he had increased his share of the white vote by just four points.

Verily, the importance of the Hispanic vote has been greatly oversold and that of the white vote de-emphasized. No coincidence, I believe.