NPR's Cokie Roberts: Romney Poland Trip Racially Motivated

NPR's Cokie Roberts: Romney Poland Trip Racially Motivated: "Cokie Roberts: Well, I think part of it was a desire to portray President Obama s something of a wimp, and say he's abandoned Eastern Europe. But look, you remember well the Reagan Democrats. Those ethnic white voters who had been Democrats for many years; turned out for Ronald Reagan, and have been fairly predictable Republicans since then. Now it's a smaller percentage of the population -- of the voting population -- that it used to be, but white voters are still much more Republican than any other group in the electorate. They went for McCain in 2008 by 55%. And I think that getting those ethnic voters excited is really what Romney has in mind here. It's more for the folks at home -- the descendents of the people that he will be speaking to -- in Poland."
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