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 ...
[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....
[“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....
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
The big donors will decide the candidate - not the little people (just as in 2016).
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.
Yes, I think if he polled Texans on that issue, 90 percent would say Beto is an Hispanic.
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.
Can you buy popcorn by the tractor trailer load?
Cause it’s looking like I may actually have to do that.
White liberal elites have always run the democrat party... ever since their glory days in the Jim Crow South... They ARE the racists...
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.
That was my thought too.
clean and articulate blacks need not apply.
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.
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