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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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To: ExTexasRedhead

[More proof that Liberalism is a degenerate form of mental illness.]

And it’s virtually never cured, it seems.

[ Dems worry: Top three candidates in polls are all white men ]

That is pretty scary. Darn honky men!! Oh wait, that’s me....


41 posted on 12/26/2018 8:56:06 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: UCANSEE2

[“It’s almost like we’re moving backwards,”]

I’m not saying these people are lunatics.

I’m just saying listen to what they say and do.

That’s all I’m saying....


42 posted on 12/26/2018 8:57:17 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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43 posted on 12/26/2018 9:26:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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Biden is so highly rated cause these IDIOTS believe he can beat TRUMP & win back those BIG BAD BLUE States TRUMP won!

I think Biden would've beaten TRUMP in 2016 cause those Dem voters in PA, MI & WI would've stuck with Biden than take a chance on TRUMP

But after seeing the performance of TRUMP for 4 years, these Democrats are never going back to Biden!

Just watch TRUMP trounce Biden in WI, MI & PA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

44 posted on 12/26/2018 9:58:29 PM PST by KavMan
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To: luvbach1

The big donors will decide the candidate - not the little people (just as in 2016).


45 posted on 12/27/2018 3:52:22 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: EdnaMode

They’d better watch out. Beto could end the race with his Hollywood backing and CA moving up its primary. Then he would sweep TX in the 2020 primary.


46 posted on 12/27/2018 4:19:31 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: simpson96

Yes, I think if he polled Texans on that issue, 90 percent would say Beto is an Hispanic.


47 posted on 12/27/2018 4:20:46 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Since accomplishments and education don’t matter, the liberals should just nominate newborns with the correct skin tone. They can make up the rest again at a later date.the only requirement to be a Democrat nominee should be their ability to sign their name.


48 posted on 12/27/2018 4:38:39 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: EEGator

Can you buy popcorn by the tractor trailer load?
Cause it’s looking like I may actually have to do that.


49 posted on 12/27/2018 5:55:52 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EdnaMode

White liberal elites have always run the democrat party... ever since their glory days in the Jim Crow South... They ARE the racists...


50 posted on 12/27/2018 8:14:48 AM PST by GOPJ (DC Swamp critters can't sell influence or American blood in the Middle East anymore. It's a win.)
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To: Boomer

Well, my point was this: We know Dems only care about winning, regardless of cost or method. Therefore, if the white guys are polling high, they don’t represent a political weakness compared to the competition, and that’s all that matters, in Dem world.


51 posted on 12/27/2018 9:28:10 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: simpson96
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.

That was my thought too.

52 posted on 12/27/2018 9:30:22 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: EdnaMode

clean and articulate blacks need not apply.


53 posted on 12/27/2018 9:30:55 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: EdnaMode
The money quote, that so succinctly points out the racism and sexism inherent in the democratic party:

A white male candidate will have challenges because our voters are predominantly women and people of color,”

Republicans are mostly white, and a majority are men, and yet that hasn't made it hard for women and minorities to win nominations for our party, or general elections, except when the democrats manage to get their racist/sexist voters to vote against the "uppity" blacks and women who don't toe their party line.

54 posted on 12/27/2018 10:09:03 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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