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Dems worry: Top three candidates in polls are all white men
The Hill ^ | December 26, 2018 | Amie Parnes

Posted on 12/26/2018 6:04:14 PM PST by EdnaMode

Democrats are worried that they have a problem: The three people leading polls in the very early stages of their presidential race are all white men.

The party traditionally battles over identity politics and wants to be seen as promoting diversity.

Its last three nominees have been Barack Obama, who became the nation’s first African-American president, and Hillary Clinton, the first woman to win the popular vote.

Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) are this year’s top-tier candidates, according to a recent and very early Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll.

It showed that 32 percent of those polled in Iowa favored Biden, while 19 percent preferred Sanders and 11 percent liked O'Rourke.

While some Democrats believe the early polls are merely a metric on name recognition, they say it defies the party’s mission to be more diverse and more inclusive that the top three candidates are all white men.

“It’s almost like we’re moving backwards,” said one Democratic strategist. “We elected a black president in 2008 and 2012, we nominated a woman in 2016, so why are we now back with three white men at the top of the polls?”

Democratic strategist Seth Bringman added that it “definitely sends the wrong message about who our party is.”

To be sure, a number of Democratic women and members of minority groups have expressed an interest in running for president.

The list includes Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), to name just some of the potential candidates.

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To: EdnaMode

If Dems wore shades everybody would be near black and their world would be happy. More government funding for shades.


21 posted on 12/26/2018 6:25:59 PM PST by BEJ
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To: rfp1234

The Jackoff Party.


22 posted on 12/26/2018 6:26:18 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: EdnaMode

Barry and Hillary. A 10 year legacy of diversity. Please.


23 posted on 12/26/2018 6:27:59 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
"It's almost like we're moving backwards," said one Democratic strategist. "We elected a black president in 2008 and 2012, we nominated a woman in 2016, so why are we now back with three white men at the top of the polls?"
Because Demwits are sexist and racist a-holes, obviously, or they wouldn't spout such rubbish as that. The Demgagogic Party has turned its back on the very late Henry Clay, who famously said, "I'd rather be right than President." Now, they want to be neither. Thanks EdnaMode.

24 posted on 12/26/2018 6:35:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: EdnaMode
"Democrats are worried that they have a problem: The three people leading polls in the very early stages of their presidential race are all two old white men and one babbling beto."
25 posted on 12/26/2018 6:42:40 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: C210N

In January 2018, no one had heard of AOC.


26 posted on 12/26/2018 6:51:48 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: EdnaMode

Uh, if white guys were in some way being forced on them and they think it’s a political liability, fine. But if these guys are the top because of polls, how is it a problem?


27 posted on 12/26/2018 7:17:09 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: EEGator

And if you add the IQs of all three, you’ll still not get to three digits.


28 posted on 12/26/2018 7:17:11 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: UCANSEE2

More re-education is needed. That’s the problem with having the stupid as a key part of your constituency ...they may turn out to be TOO stupid


29 posted on 12/26/2018 7:27:46 PM PST by j.havenfarm ( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: Still Thinking

In our world the best rises to the top regardless of gender or race. In the leftist world the person of color or the female or better yet a female person of color gets an extra 50 points out of 100. Fairness on an even playing field is an alien concept to the left. They’ve had Affirmative action since 1964 so they think they should get preferential treatment in all things in life. Another bad consequence of that bad law.


30 posted on 12/26/2018 7:31:41 PM PST by Boomer (Leftists destroy everything they touch)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Not one of them are Jewish! None are Gay or transvestites. Don’t worry—if elected they can always select a woman of color as VP—That or an Islamic dude. How about an Indian? Or maybe a Native American.


31 posted on 12/26/2018 7:36:33 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Not one of them are Jewish! None are Gay or transvestites. Don’t worry—if elected they can always select a woman of color as VP—That or an Islamic dude. How about an Indian? Or maybe a Native American.


32 posted on 12/26/2018 7:36:33 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: EdnaMode

Beto. Fake Mexican. Real Pendejo.


33 posted on 12/26/2018 7:53:27 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: EdnaMode

They’ll be a lot of white men who will still vote Democratic though. The Democrats will get 30%-36% of the white vote.


34 posted on 12/26/2018 8:03:03 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: EdnaMode

I think the vast majority of Dems don’t view O’Rourke as white. They “count” him as Hispanic, and will continue to call him ‘Beto’, and try to use him to try to bring in the Hispanic vote.


35 posted on 12/26/2018 8:06:30 PM PST by simpson96
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To: EdnaMode
Live by the sword ⚔️ Die but the sword This primary will be fun to watch
36 posted on 12/26/2018 8:12:23 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: bk1000

Hah, diversity to the Progressive Marxist Dem Left is just a word and something to pummel conservatives with.


37 posted on 12/26/2018 8:12:24 PM PST by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: EdnaMode
"Well, let's see. We know that our skin color is our uniform. (Commander Rockwell taught us that.) And our top three candidates are all white men. That makes us the party of the white boys!"

"Maxine, Maxine, help us!" (/Democrat)

38 posted on 12/26/2018 8:12:35 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: bk1000

A Lunch Bucket, a Commie and a Fake. The TRIFECTA of Democrat candidates for 2020.


39 posted on 12/26/2018 8:29:23 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: EdnaMode

They don’t have a chance without a gimmick.


40 posted on 12/26/2018 8:30:15 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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