Posted on 03/02/2016 4:57:10 PM PST by McGruff
Hillary Clinton set out 10 months ago to inspire and energize the Democratic Party, hoping to bring together the rising American electorate of black, brown, young and female voters into a durable presidential coalition. But buried beneath Mrs. Clinton’s wide-ranging and commanding victories on Tuesday night were troubling signs of a party that has not yet rallied to her call.
Democratic turnout has fallen drastically since 2008, the last time the party had a contested primary, with roughly three million fewer Democrats voting in the 15 states that held caucuses or primaries through Tuesday, according to unofficial election results tallied through Wednesday afternoon. It declined in almost every state, dropping by roughly 50 percent in Texas and 40 percent in Tennessee. In Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia, the number of Democrats voting decreased by between a quarter and a third.
The fall-off in Democratic primary turnout — which often reveals whether a candidate is exciting voters and attracting them to the polls — reached deeply into some of the core groups of voters Mrs. Clinton must not only win in November, but turn out in large numbers. It stands in sharp contrast to the flood of energized new voters showing up at the polls to vote for Donald J. Trump in the Republican contest.
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Some Democrats now worry that Mrs. Clinton will have difficulty matching the surge in new black, Hispanic, and young voters who came to the polls for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
“Barack Obama without that surge is John Kerry,” said Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster who worked on Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign, referring to the losing Democratic nominee in 2004. “Just turning out the traditional minority base is not a 51 percent pathway going into November.”
Look for her to wear black face at future campaign events.
Heard the fake indian caught hell for not supporting Bernie in Mass.
The Stupid Party wants to get rid of Trump and his millions of new voters.... all to give the White House to Hillary Clinton.
If they succeed, we must make sure they lose the Senate.
Surprised the NYTimes allows it to be mentioned.
Must mean they’re starting their GOTV effort for her early.
“We don’t need to make America great again”
(we just need Americans to get their minds right)
Maybe Hillary can connect with black voters by drawling how she ain’t no waaays tarrrd in an exaggerated black accent.
Or she can show she identifies with them by telling them that Republicans run Congress like a plantation. Urban blacks today still identify with the plantation life in the old south, so Hillary believes.
Maybe she can say she saw “12 Years A Slave”???
I think Clinton and her brownshirts might want to get busy registering illegal alien invaders to vote. AMERICANS don’t seem to think very highly of her. If she thinks she can get enough AMERICAN voters to help her beat Trump, she’s a lot dumber than she looks.
Hillary is as dumb as she looks. She is hardly some intellectual giant. Yet we are told she is the smartest woman in the world, with the implication that this will be confirmed if she is elected president.
Hillary !
Because it is much more imprtant to elect someone with female body parts than a qualified, competent person who would actually be able to run the country.
Hillaryous Rotten Criminal…1/2 the Greatest Crime Couple in the history of The United States of America isn’t in prison?
We the people have work to do.
Hillary Clinton has all the “wow” factor to the party base that Romney had.
Hillary Clinton will never attract Obama’s voters. Most of that coalition was race based. A white, rich old woman isn’t going to get that
Would a black VP compensate for that? (DeVal Patrick, Cory Booker, etc) With the community organizers “wink-winking” about Hillary’s failing health?
Not sure myself....
Despite having graduated from Wellesley and Yale Law School, Hillary flunked the DC bar exam, which is why she ended up in Arkansas where she rejoined Bill and the bar exam had a much higher pass rate. Not such a genius, apparently.
There’s no joy in Mudville. Bernie is a wacko and the hildebeast is, well the hildebeast. That shouldn’t lull anyone into thinking that the drones won’t come out in force for the general.
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