Black and Latino Voters Sway From Clinton to Sanders
If Sanders stays on message, Clinton will see the nomination disappear like it did in '08 against Obama
In a Facebook post on January 28, Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow wrote:
“If anyone doubts that the mainstream media fails to tell the truth about our political system (and its true winners and losers), the spectacle of large majorities of black folks supporting Hillary Clinton in the primary races ought to be proof enough. I can’t believe Hillary would be coasting into the primaries with her current margin of black support if most people knew how much damage the Clintons have done—the millions of families that were destroyed the last time they were in the White House, thanks to their boastful embrace of the mass incarceration machine and their total capitulation to the right-wing narrative on race, crime, welfare and taxes. There’s so much more to say on this topic and it’s a shame that more people aren’t saying it. I think it’s time we have that conversation.”
African Americans and Latinos are increasingly shifting support from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Presidential nomination—yet despite Ms. Clinton’s dwindling lead among these voter demographics, major media outlets continue to push the narrative that she has an overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of support from them, without citing any actual figures. An NBC News poll from mid-January put Mr. Sanders’ support from African Americans at 20 percent compared to Ms. Clinton at 63 percent, and Mr. Sanders at 37 percent with Latino voters to Ms. Clinton’s 52 percent—both significant increases in support for Mr. Sanders from where they were several months ago.
In South Carolina, where African Americans comprise 30 percent of the population, Mr. Sanders cut Ms. Clinton’s lead from 40 points to 22 points. In the past two weeks alone, South Carolina State Representative Justin Bamberg defected from his initial endorsement of Ms. Clinton to Mr. Sanders, and State Rep. Joe Neal also officially endorsed Mr. Sanders—in addition to the growing list of African-American state legislators who have already come out in support of the Vermont Senator over Democratic establishment favorite. To combat the surge in support Mr. Sanders is receiving in South Carolina, Ms. Clinton sent her husband, Bill Clinton, and 170 black women to try to protect her lead in the state. Ms. Clinton knows her lead in South Carolina serves as a firewall for her to win the Democratic nomination. If she loses, the nomination will likely go with it.
http://observer.com/2016/02/black-and-latino-voters-sway-from-clinton-to-sanders/
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