Reddit reviews The Politics of Disgust
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This is really interesting:
>Romney is not favored by enough white voters right now to win in November.
>As Andrew Romano reports in The Daily Beast, “Romney’s white support currently lingers in the low 50s. This would have been bad news for a Republican 25 years ago; in 2012 it could be fateful.”
No one seems enthusiastic about Romney, which has been his trouble from the beginning. It's unlikely Romney will attract enough Latino votes to make up the difference. It's highly unlikely he'll get enough black votes. So he's falling back on Reagan-era dog-whistle racism in order to motivate whites to go to the polls.
Retro!
Here's my chance to plug an excellent book about these tactics: The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen.