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Can Clinton Win Back the White Working Class?
National Journal ^ | November 30, 2014 | Alex Roarty

Posted on 12/02/2014 1:42:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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I love how they claim that any white person without a degree is in the working class. There are plenty of millionaires and billionaires in that group, most notably Bill Gates, the richest man in the world.
1 posted on 12/02/2014 1:42:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What the article doesn’t mention is Clinton’s biggest baggage is her association with the unpopular Obama and his policies.

Add to that her unimpressive resume, her undistinguished tenure as a US Senator from New York and as Secretary Of State under Obama and the fact she has no political coattails to speak of.

Every candidate she endorsed and campaigned for this year lost. And the Democrats think she has a gilded path to the White House in 2016? That’s a lot easier said than done.

Above all, her ice cold personality doesn’t exactly make people warm up to her. There’s nothing like the following Obama developed before and during his presidential campaign in 2008.

Plus, her age works against her.


2 posted on 12/02/2014 2:02:38 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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"Plus, her age works against her."

Plus she is BUTT ugly both inside and out! ! ! ! !

3 posted on 12/02/2014 2:06:43 AM PST by DeaconRed (You can't be old & wise until you have been young & stupid First.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet



~No~





4 posted on 12/02/2014 2:07:54 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: goldstategop

Plus, she’s a terrible retail politician, unlike her husband and many of her potential competitors in both parties. Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio are all in their early forties, Sarah Palin just turned 50, Chris Christie is only 52 and Scott Walker is 47. That matters a lot, as a presidential campaign is a long, hard slog. I’ve worked on several and they’re rough on young people, much less the elderly.


5 posted on 12/02/2014 2:09:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Bill probably could (for some unexplainable reason).

But Hitlery? I doubt it.

6 posted on 12/02/2014 2:11:11 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: shibumi

what white working class?


7 posted on 12/02/2014 2:14:31 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As for her agenda, the party’s radical left is against pro job, pro growth and high wage policies.

Its only policy seems to be to displace American workers in favor of illegals. A policy she herself has endorsed.

That sets the bar very high for the Democrats to win back voters who are abandoning it in droves.

Another problem Hillary faces as a woman - is the white male problem. She is seen as unsympathetic and indifferent to the needs of white men. They see her as a feminist who hates them and few of them will vote for her and not because of her sex.

Hillary is not the kind of politician to pull off a makeover of the kind needed to win the White House in two short years.


8 posted on 12/02/2014 2:16:09 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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The kind Kasich won over in OH by expanding Medicaid to cover in defiance of Republican orthodoxy.

He knew they’d never be able to afford Obamacare so he made the best of a bad situation.

That helped people see him as someone who cared about them and he won Democratic strongholds throughout the state.

In contrast, Hillary comes across looking more like Leona Helmsley. Its all about her not about people this article claims could identify with her.

I don’t see working class Americans flocking to her banner. Like the saying has it, “where’s the beef?”


9 posted on 12/02/2014 2:25:38 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nope, gone from the racist democrats forever.


10 posted on 12/02/2014 2:28:12 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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Women will flock to her like Blacks did to Obama.

They’ll pull the lever thinking “she’s a woman” just like Blacks did thinking “He’s black”.


11 posted on 12/02/2014 2:29:21 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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Okay, then why did so many Democratic women lose the female vote a month ago? Examples: Wendy Davis and Sandra Fluke. Neither one is what I’d call a beauty, but they’re surely more attractive than Secretary Clinton.


12 posted on 12/02/2014 2:31:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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I would hope that at this point - working class American has now seen the socialist policies of The Left and will never support them....even the Unions tried to shield themselves from them when Obamacare rolled out...

Then again - I’ve seen the same blind following before in history...


13 posted on 12/02/2014 2:31:56 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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Blacks vote for a black candidate out of racist solidarity.

Women have never voted that way and its patronizing to think they vote automatically for a woman in the way blacks pull the lever for a black because of his skin color.

They’re smarter than men give them credit for and you sir - as are sexist as Mark Udall. He lost.


14 posted on 12/02/2014 2:32:17 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS; sickoflibs; GOPJ; Jane Long; no-to-illegals
Hillary's avowed support of Obama's DACA atrocity---- deferred deportation of millions of illegals squatting in our country sucking up zillions of tax dollars----might help her win over Latinos in 2016.

(Snort)----yeah, sure, DACA was a really BIG help to Dems historic losses in midterms.

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Mmmmmmm.....I just can't wait to see Hillary donning her serape and sombrero.....going after latino votes.

That ill-fated move will put her on a train to political Endsville faster than you can say, "I'll have the combo platter w/ extra hot sauce."

15 posted on 12/02/2014 2:34:51 AM PST by Liz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yup.

Give women respect. They’re not that dumb and know when liberal men and women insult their intelligence by telling them men want to keep them barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen.

As far stereotypes go - its an offensive and a dated one. The Democrats’ War On Women meme flopped in this election.


16 posted on 12/02/2014 2:35:02 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Democrat party is doomed. In the near future, it will be mostly Black. There may be some white members - but they will mostly be gays and power crazed radical liberals. The radical liberals will initially take over the leadership because they see themselves as natural rulers (plus they have the money), leading the ignorant black majority. However, this will not last long. Blacks will realize their strength in number and take control. They will throw out the white leaders...but at the same time, they will lose the funding. The Democrat party will shortly thereafter cease to exist.
17 posted on 12/02/2014 2:50:54 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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Plus she is BUTT ugly both inside and out! ! ! ! !

You are correct sir. She is one ugly and evil beyotch. Rotten to the core. One day she will stand before God, and give an account.

18 posted on 12/02/2014 2:52:15 AM PST by Mark17 (So gracious and tender was He. I claimed Him that day as my saviour, this stranger of Galilee)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I wish I could believe that.


19 posted on 12/02/2014 2:58:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

The party now represents poor cotton counties, minority majority districts and hipster and college liberal strongholds.

Now that’s an ascendant majority. Ruy Texeira needs to figure out why the coalition of the ascendant has collapsed.


20 posted on 12/02/2014 2:58:26 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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