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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If Dems wore shades everybody would be near black and their world would be happy. More government funding for shades.
The Jackoff Party.
Barry and Hillary. A 10 year legacy of diversity. Please.
"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.
Virtue signaling convinces the left of its own unimpeachable morals. When push comes to shove, it rejects guilt for any of its wrongdoing and attributes such allegations to conspiracy theories.
Peter Daou, a Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, tweeted on Monday that Ford will be "attacked, smeared, and demonized" and that people must "BELIEVE WOMEN."
In January 2018, no one had heard of AOC.
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?
And if you add the IQs of all three, you’ll still not get to three digits.
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
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.
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.
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.
Beto. Fake Mexican. Real Pendejo.
They’ll be a lot of white men who will still vote Democratic though. The Democrats will get 30%-36% of the white vote.
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.
Hah, diversity to the Progressive Marxist Dem Left is just a word and something to pummel conservatives with.
"Maxine, Maxine, help us!" (/Democrat)
A Lunch Bucket, a Commie and a Fake. The TRIFECTA of Democrat candidates for 2020.
They don’t have a chance without a gimmick.
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