Bingo!
I’ve been saying for months, that blacks won’t turn out for Hillary in the numbers she needs them to, to win.
Like Ms Wimes says, Hillary had ample time to build real support in that community, but like most Dems, she took them for granted.
She seriously miscalculated her level of real support among blacks, which is much, much lower than it was for Obama, and even lower than for any typical Democrat.
And now she will pay for her hubris.
Go back and look at the 2008 and 2012 results for Obama.
2008: 69.5 million votes. 2012: 66 million votes.
Bush in 2004 took only 62 million votes.
At least five million of these 2008 votes were black votes who rarely go and show up to vote. So in 2016? It’ll surprise me if Hillary can take 58 million votes, and at least 30-percent of blacks who do vote....will vote for Trump.
This will leave the DNC in an odd review. Do you in 2020 with a unknown black guy or gal in an empty suit....to repeat the success of 2008?
I see the same lack of enthusiasm for her at work too. I work with one die-hard Bernie supporter, and a lot of us are Trump guys, so we find a lot of common ground in bashing Hillary often. The black guys used to jump into these political conversations. Now they don't even care. They say nothing to defend/support Hillary....nothing. They act like they don't have a horse in this race at all.
I know these guys aren't going to vote Trump, but I can see them sitting this one out.