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Prominent South Carolina "Firewall" Democrat Drops Clinton Endorsement to Back Sanders
Slate ^ | January 25, 2016 | Ben Mathis-Lilley

Posted on 01/25/2016 9:50:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Overwhelming support from black voters is said to be Hillary Clinton's "firewall" against the possibility of Bernie Sanders victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. It's the reason that she's likely to build a delegate lead by winning primaries across the South in late February and early March. As Slate's Jamelle Bouie wrote last week, Clinton's advantage in this area has been built through decades of appearances and face-to-face conversations with voters and influential figures at "black civic and community organizations, from church networks to civil rights groups." The idea is that Sanders, however appealing his policy positions might be to black Americans, does not have Hillary's level of recognition and bank of relationships to draw on. And it's with all this in mind that the New York Times' report on an endorsement switch in South Carolina (the first Southern primary, on Feb. 27) is noteworthy:

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; blackvote; clinton; democraticprimary; firewall; hillary
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

First Jeb drops into single digits in the polls and can’t move back up even though he spent $60 million. Now Hillary is cracking up as badly, if not more, than she did in 2008. This election season is the gift that keeps on giving.


21 posted on 01/25/2016 10:27:23 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: VanDeKoik

Sanders is a maniac who has a low percentage chance to win the general election. The DNC will do everything it can to stop him.


22 posted on 01/25/2016 10:35:54 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

I have engaged a few Sanders voters and asked them if they really think the DNC would allow Bern to be the nominee, with comment that the fix is in for the Hill.

Priceless confusion and blank look has been the response from each! Words to argue or question are apparently beyond them.

Try this when given the opportunity. Disclaimer: strictly for entertainment value only.


23 posted on 01/25/2016 11:41:39 AM PST by spiderpig (does whatever a SpiderPig does)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

Remember, Clinton’s firewall consists of SC black Dems who voted overwhelming for ...Alvin Green..


24 posted on 01/25/2016 11:53:44 AM PST by ken5050 (Trump: "I'm no conservative, but I sure can play one on TV")
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To: nascarnation

In the lower left of that picture I see something on that woman’s head. Could it be a ....

Aunt Jemima?


25 posted on 01/25/2016 12:25:45 PM PST by KC Burke (Two Corinthians walk into a bar...)
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To: nascarnation

Does that women on the bottom-left have a pancake on her head?


26 posted on 01/25/2016 12:27:33 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Political Correctness is a kool-aid drinking suicide cult)
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Does that woman on the bottom-left have a pancake on her head?

That's a cigar holder.

27 posted on 01/25/2016 12:30:43 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: spiderpig

At Christmas one of my cousins (White girl in college, natrually) seemed keen on the idea of Sanders. I didn’t ask her about it.

Best case for us, he gives Hilly a good fight and his supporters are embittered when he loses and don’t turnout in November. ;D

I believe he’s promised not to run 3rd party, if he did he’d either die in a small plane crash, get accused of rape, get accused of smoking crack, or get accused of saying the N-word once 30 years ago.


28 posted on 01/25/2016 7:32:54 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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