In the Shadow of FDR

FDR was not above hardball politics:





1948:  The Classic Rowe/Clifford Strategy Memo to Truman



Air conditioning and the GOP

The 1960 election

• A glance at the past
• Harry Belafonte ad
• Jackie Kennedy in Spanish

Race and the vote through 1968

		1952	1956	1960	1964	1968
White	R	57	59	51	41	47
	D	43	41	49	59	38
Nonwhite	R	21	39	32	6	13
	D	79	61	68	94	87

To 2012

		1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
White	R	67	52	56	64	59	40	46	54	58	55	59
	D	31	47	36	35	40	39	43	42	41	43	39
Black	R	18	16	11	9	12	10	12	8	11	4	6
	D	82	83	85	90	86	83	84	90	88	95	93
Hispanic	R	35		35	37	30	25	21	35	44	31	27
	D	63		56	62	69	61	72	62	53	67	71