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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.
1 posted on 10/23/2017 12:49:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Relying only on minorities and always dem liberal whites leaves them little margin for error. Ignoring malleable white swing voters would be foolish. Whites are still a majority and after majority comes plurality ie still more than any other group. Ignoring the largest group of voters is unsound strategy.

I don’t buy that Shillery didn’t do all she could to get Blacks to turn out in November, she certainly did in the primary and that’s the only reason she beat Bernie. Where was her final rally? Philly. It’s just that Blacks won’t turn out the same way for a chalk white honkey like her as they did for Obama, which was to be expected.

As for VP candidates, who was available? Corey Booker? Deval Patrick? Not great choices and who’s the say putting a brother in One Observatory Circle would have been a motivating factor for any voter after 8 years of a Black guy in the White House? A Hispanic choice certainly wouldn’t have effected Black turnout either.

There’s no magic formula to get idiots who only vote for President to show up in an off year, as if both sides haven’t already been trying to.

There’s no reason btw a rat candidate can’t try to appeal to gullible Whites while also shilling for thugs to gin up Black turnout. False dichotomy.


31 posted on 10/23/2017 8:14:23 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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Steve is also an amateure when it comes to getting elected. This is exactly the mistake Hillary's campaign staff made, calculating carefully what percentage of the identity-politics groups they needed to carry to get elected, and discarding anyone who didn't fit that mold. They got killed for it.

You need every vote. Every one. And if you decide to scapegoat any group you lose. Hillary's people told her that offending the coal miners was safe enough because, you know, how many coal miners are there? That everyone in every related industry, steel workers, oil workers, auto workers, that they all knew perfectly well that disdain applied to them as well didn't register until election day, when it did, fatally. That it bled over into other demographics, their wives, and cut into her women's vote, didn't register either, and now we are treated to learned theses stating that those women were too dumb to understand their true interests. Yes, they did, and they voted them.

And so, in a state that's 62% white, the Dems don't need the white vote. Right. Work off that assumption and we'll be reading more gloomy postmortems on the order of "What Happened" and laughing.

33 posted on 10/23/2017 10:31:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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The writer is a racist.


34 posted on 10/23/2017 11:54:29 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Does this explained why Obama totally ignored white people (except those who are homosexual) for 8 years?


35 posted on 10/23/2017 11:56:15 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Virginia is 19% black.

Census: Virginia

37 posted on 10/25/2017 6:33:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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