And the Washington Post throws another racist stink bomb out there

[n2doc]

Be forewarned, this is a doozy

Why did Bernie Sanders dominate Saturday? Caucuses in states with smaller black populations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/27/why-did-bernie-sanders-dominate-saturday-caucuses-in-whiter-states/

I'm sure the swarm will be all over it.

[Autumn]

1. Oh yeah, they will be all over it

[dogman]

2. So what is the status of blacks who voted for Bernie?

Are they different than others? Is there a proscribed voting method that they are not adhering to? This guy is an ass.

[noretreatnosurrender]

3. Ignore the Swarm

Let them debate it among themselves.

[sarge43]

4. Hawaiian demographic, short version

White: 25%

POC: 50%

Multiracial: 25%

(numbers rounded off)

If Clinton had won those states, would that have neutralized the argument? In short, a white person voting for Clinton doesn't hint of racism, but voting for Sanders does? The last time I looked both were white.

Is it just, maybe, possible that people voted for Sanders because they think he's the better choice? Nah, gotta be racism

[yourpaljoey]

5. Ain't that a hoot!?

[sarge43]

11. That's not the word I'd use.

No matter who is doing it, race baiting is disgusting.

[yourpaljoey]

12. agreed

[Impedimentus]

6. The Washington Post IS a Stink Bomb !

It was once a great and respected newspaper; now it's a billionaire's play toy.

FEEL THE BERN - 2016

[abelenkpe]

7. +1000

[sarge43]

8. A sad falling off n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

9. More racebaiting shit

Billionaire Jeff Bezos must be getting worried that he'll have to pay his tax bill if Bernie wins

http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2013/08/washington_post_owner_jeff_bez.php

[Merryland]

10. I've read my limit for the month from the Post

but Philip Bump, who wrote this story, also did a hack job on Bernie a couple of weeks ago. They'll be attacking Bernie right on through his inauguration.

[IDemo]

13. Katharine Graham's WP is no more

They seem to have turned into just another click-bait source.

[MisterP]

18. Gawker's gonna bankrupt after Hulk Hogan, Phi Kappa Psi might own Rolling Stone (literally)

who's the next clickbait empire that'll go down for their wayward ways?

[Equinox Moon]

14. I think the new meme could be...

A person is a person, a vote is a vote. No more political analysis in regards to race and gender.

People have mixed ethnicity anyway. People have mixed gender. It is a ridiculous and outdated view to analyze voters by groups.

[sarge43]

16. Agree

I'm sick of being defined by labels. Yes, they're part of me, but the parts do not add up to the whole.

[Left Coast2020]

15. My mentor is rolling in his grave.....

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
-Edward R. Murrow

[JPnoodleman]

17. Voting for person with an English surname and is protestant.....?

Is the paragon of diversity, and all people who vote for her are champions of diversity.

Voting for the Jewish guy with a strange accent on the other hand is double plus mega racist.

[paulthompson]

19. California

I just posted this in a Primaries forum thread about this Post article, but I'll post it here too. Note how the Post article doesn't mention California at all, because it doesn't fit the spin.

It's true that Sanders has done especially poorly with Black voters. However, only 6.7% of California's population is Black.

I think it's all going to come down to California. Anything is possible if Sanders has a big win there.

It's true that Sanders has done less well with Latino voters, and California has a lot of Latino voters. But there are states where he's gotten about 50% of the Latino vote, like Nevada and Illinois. In the latest California poll, he's losing the Latino vote by about 55% to 35%, which already is not that bad. He also has been doing very well with Asian American voters (as Hawaii showed last night), and there are a lot of those in California.

If he can improve his numbers with Latinos and win White and Asian Americans by big amounts, he could easily have a landslide win in California without improving his numbers with the relatively small percentage of Black voters in that state at all.

Surprisingly, Sanders isn't doing that well with White voters in California, only winning them by about 5% in the latest poll. Judging by other states, those numbers are likely to shift massively in his favor. He's won 90% of the White vote in some states.