Up all night. Too tired to scan the manosphere for weird reactions to Obama’s victory.
But here are some scenes from last night as a couple of backwards white dudes attempted to come to terms with the new demographic realities that enabled Obama to win the election despite getting a smaller percentage of the white vote than Michael Dukakis did in 1988.
Karl Rove, on Fox News, responded to the new realities with good old-fashioned denial, arguing with the number-crunchers for Fox after they called Ohio as a win for Obama. Rove must have thought he’d bought the election good and square!
Bill O’Reilly, meanwhile, responded with, well, there’s really no other word for it than racism:
Also, while we’re talking demographics, here’s a nice pithy breakdown of the gender gap, from ABC news:
Women favored Obama by 11 points while men backed Romney by 7; the gender gap has been bigger just once, in 2000 (when men were +11 Bush and women were +11 Gore). Add in marital status and the gaps become garish: Married men for Romney by 60-38 percent; unmarried women (younger, more Democratic, more aligned with Obama on social and role-of-government issues) backed the incumbent by 67-31 percent.
Grouchy entitled white dudes, get used to it.
Do people actually DO those rant about food stamps? I mean, Jesus Christ, they’re singlehandedly saving my ass right now! Why would ANYONE be a dick about FOOD STAMPS?
I mean, Jesus.
(And as someone who is fucking LIVING IN AN ATTIC CLOSET because that’s all I can afford… aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh. The White House probably spends more on a goddamn dinner party than I do in a year. All I want is to be able to have a room with four walls and a standable ceiling someday! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?)
amandajane – there probably isn’t any!