Can Dems win over white males

A really good piece in the Huffington Post, with a lot of thoughtful insight among many liberals.

The question? Can the Democratic Party ever win back the white male vote without aliening it's other constituencies? And if they can, should they?

Excerpt from one of the writers

When the top-tier Republican candidates skipped a debate geared toward African-Americans, the media rightly pointed out that it sent an awful signal to the black community. But for decades Democrats have sent a similar signal to a far larger constituency. More than a third of the American electorate was told the party they once built did not need them.

Democrats have not won more than 38 of every 100 white men who voted since Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford. It is no coincidence that 1976 was also the last time Democrats won a majority. Yet this causes remarkably little concern on the political left. One reason is that some liberals are depending upon an ever-diversifying nation. But white men will be at least a third of the electorate for the coming decade. And they will be larger than the Hispanic bloc for far longer.

Quoting Ronald Reagan "I didn't leave the Democratic Party... It left me".