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The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race
The Nation ^
| October 23, 2017
| By Steve Phillips
Posted on 10/23/2017 12:49:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Steve Phillips is a national political leader, civil-rights lawyer, author, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the founder and editor in chief of Democracy in Color, a multimedia platform on race and politics. He is the author of the New York Times best seller, Brown Is the New White: How a Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority (New Press). He is a regular contributor to The Nation.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Good! Keep them thinking they can win elections by cobbling together “coalitions of color”. It’s a sure-fire formula for continued losses.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Steve Phillips is a racist.
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posted on
10/23/2017 12:51:37 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Don’t blacks know that voting is acting white?
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posted on
10/23/2017 12:55:12 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Accroding to the Census Bureau, Virginia is 80% white, 19% black...............
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posted on
10/23/2017 12:57:21 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I sure hope they focus all their efforts on the voters “of color”.
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:02:55 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They really want black against white? What a shock that would be....for them!
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:03:14 PM PDT
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So what is this imbecile saying? That Democrats no longer need or want a coalition that includes white people? Good luck with that since whites comprise about 72% of the US population. Granted that some percentage of them are Leftists, but if they are excluded from the coalition, their votes don’t go to Democrats. All the other race/ethnic groups combined don’t add up to 30% of the US population,and they are mostly concentrated in urban centers. Go ahead, Democrats, revel in your identity politics to the exclusion of most Americans. We might finally begin to turn the tide against Leftist crap.
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:05:42 PM PDT
by
Avalon Memories
(The question about fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Harvey Pervberg sure seemed to have an obsession with young white actresses.
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:06:35 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Oldeconomybuyer
That’s exactly what this Myeshia Johnson/Frederica Wilson sordid ordeal is all about. Attempting to motivate black voters to get out and vote against non Democrat candidates.
Only problem is that it’s probably good for 5 points for the conservative/ Republican candidate.
Despicable what they did, and people with a brain know the truth and won’t forget.
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:13:25 PM PDT
by
CodeJockey
(Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ms Clinton did not receive even 50% of the vote in Virginia. This analysis is nuts.
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:14:00 PM PDT
by
bagman
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Much of the progressive movement and many progressive campaigns are still dominated by White leadership, fixated on White voters. They speak as if two-thirds of the nation should just go away and die, never to vote or hold office again.
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:23:32 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
To: sparklite2
I call on Blacks to take a knee on voting!
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:29:39 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If every person of color who voted for Hillary Clinton in Virginia last year turns out to vote in Virginias gubernatorial contest on November 7, Democrat Ralph Northam could win without getting a single vote from a white person. Not one.LOL! Really???
Not one? Steve, you need some lessons in math.
From Wikipedia:
Virginia Ethnicity |
|
Non-Hispanic White |
62.7% |
Black or African American |
19.7% |
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) |
9.0% |
Asian |
6.5% |
American Indian and Alaska Native |
0.5% |
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:30:32 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The headline and much of the writing is completely misleading - probably to attract clicks for the author and the magazine.
Bottom Line...
“In Virginia...there are at least 900,000 reliably Democratic white voters...”
To: Red Badger
That’s not even accounting for the eventual Blacks vs. Hispanics war that is going to break out over which group is first in line to collect racial spoils.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Unless there is a black candidate on the ballot, they will not turn out in huge numbers. Obozo’s two elections, and Hilliary’s loss in 2016 told us this.
The Dems are now stuck with having to have a black candidate at all times, whether they want to or not.
Had Hilliary picked a black running mate she might have won, but she was to vain to do so..............
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posted on
10/23/2017 1:53:19 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: bagman
Hillary Clinton won VA by 4% even with Blue NOVA thrown in. Hardly an impressive win.
And she didn’t clear 50% in the Old Dominion State.
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posted on
10/23/2017 2:00:00 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Math is hard for Steve.
If all the white voters who voted for Trump vote for Gillespie, and Steve's dream comes true and no whites vote for Northam, Northam gets creamed.
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posted on
10/23/2017 2:08:17 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
In Virginia, Democrats dont need any white votesOK then.
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posted on
10/23/2017 2:09:46 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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