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'It's very white': Las Vegas audience exposes Bernie Sanders' Latino problem
The Guardian via MSN ^ | 11/09/15 | Rory Carroll

Posted on 11/09/2015 3:57:01 PM PST by Libloather

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He surrounded himself with Latinos on stage and promised to fight for agricultural workers and to shelter families from deportation. It signalled the start of an effort to narrow Hillary Clinton's wide lead with the state's Latinos.

There was just one problem: the audience at the Cheyenne sports complex was mostly white.

Latinos largely shunned the call to "feel the Bern", leaving the crowd to dance stiffly to the Mexican music and a question mark over the campaign's prospects in Nevada.

"I do notice it's very white," said Nathan Rudig, 33, a research analyst, eyeing fellow Sanders supporters. "He's going to need the Latino and African American vote."

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lasvegas; latino; sanders; white
BLM was too busy to attend? BTW, Bern in Spanish is Bern.
1 posted on 11/09/2015 3:57:01 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

We will see dems start forcing attendance by brown people.


2 posted on 11/09/2015 4:00:55 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Libloather

And like ethnocentric tribes are going to vote for an old, creepy Jewish white boy?


3 posted on 11/09/2015 4:00:58 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Eliminate "Sanctuary Cities" and "birthright citizenship" and other immigration scams)
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To: Libloather

And like ethnocentric tribes are going to vote for an old, creepy Jewish white boy?


4 posted on 11/09/2015 4:00:58 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Eliminate "Sanctuary Cities" and "birthright citizenship" and other immigration scams)
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To: Libloather

Considering LV has a high proportion of Hispanics, and a not insignificant proportion of African Americans, this should not happen.

Socialism is a proposition among white elitists, in this country.


5 posted on 11/09/2015 4:01:54 PM PST by cicero2k
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Socialism is a proposition among white elitists, in this country.

It will help them keep their elite status. Promote the interests of minorities and the minorities will reward them with fealty and loyalty and votes. But their elite status is the most important thing to them.

6 posted on 11/09/2015 4:09:05 PM PST by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: Libloather

This is actually a good thing for Latinos.


7 posted on 11/09/2015 4:10:57 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Hillary pays more for her plants


8 posted on 11/09/2015 4:18:45 PM PST by digger48
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To: Libloather

Maybe they were white-Hispanics.

Was George Zimmerman there?


9 posted on 11/09/2015 5:06:03 PM PST by moovova
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Sure, if Latinos had wanted to live under communism, they could have gone to Cuba instead.


10 posted on 11/09/2015 6:04:54 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Sorry Hillary the Oval Office has been reserved by the first gentleman)
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