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In reply to the discussion: Cornel West Surrogacy highlights a major problem with the Sanders' campaign's outreach strategy [View all]Gothmog
(145,231 posts)77. New Poll Shows ‘Surging’ Sanders Losing Ground With the Voter Group He Needs Most
And Sanders is still not polling well with African American or Latino voters and so maybe he needs to change what he is doing http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/poll-sanders-gains-stop-short-of-minorities.html#
Team Sanders is certainly focused on the problem, with a variety of campaign efforts focused on minority voters in the works. The talking points they are putting out there, however, are less than convincing, as I learned as a guest on the public radio show "To the Point" yesterday, when I heard a Sanders supporter argue that an Iowa win would greatly boost Bernie's African-American support just like it did for Obama in South Carolina in 2008. The idea that Sanders's potential to win the black vote in South Carolina is analogous to that of the first African-American president does not pass the laugh test. Still, any early-state win for Sanders, even in exceptionally honkified Iowa and New Hampshire, will likely create some sort of generalized bounce. The question is how high, and how loyal minority voters prove to be to Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her implicit ally Barack Obama. It's worth remembering that she defeated Barack Obama handily among Latinos in 2008, and that Bill Clinton enjoyed robust support in both communities.
Monmouth University has a new national poll out that casts some fascinating, if very preliminary, light on this subject. Compared to its poll in December, Monmouth shows Sanders making pretty big gains: Clinton was up 59-to-26 last month, and only 52-to-37 now. But among black and Latino voters, Clinton has actually expanded her lead from 61-to-18 to 71-to-21. In other words, a legitimate "Sanders surge" nationally has coincided with a deterioration of his standing with the voters he will most need for a breakthrough after the first two contests of the primary season.
Sanders is actually losing ground with African American voters and Sanders' current tactics are not evidently working.
Sanders will not be the nominee unless he can expand his base of supporters. Super Tuesday will be a long day for Sanders. Vermont is one of the last states with 90+% white voting populations
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Cornel West Surrogacy highlights a major problem with the Sanders' campaign's outreach strategy [View all]
Empowerer
Jan 2016
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AA voters are very smart, but tend to exercise strategic voting more than anything.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jan 2016
#93
Why are people who AREN'T black coming into the AA forum in an OP created by a black DUer
Number23
Jan 2016
#42
Actually it was my bad. I didn't see which forum I was in until after I'd posted
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#54
An adorable attempt to excuse your behavior. You could have stopped at "I'm sorry I was
Number23
Jan 2016
#55
I'm not going to continue this. I apologized, and it's not accepted. Got it.
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#56
If the only posts you find worthwhile in this forum are ones that discuss your pres candidate in
Number23
Jan 2016
#57
Shows how little you know about this forum. I'm not black, and I've felt very welcomed here.
lunamagica
Jan 2016
#76
This web site is full of places where this kind of belligerance will get you plenty of fans
Number23
Jan 2016
#40
You can post your bewildering and needless rage at nothing everywhere else on DU
Number23
Jan 2016
#44
Cornel West is no longer what he may have been a decade ago for many in the Black community
FrenchieCat
Jan 2016
#6
My point is that the fact that you like West is irrelevant. You are already on the team
Empowerer
Jan 2016
#24
It's not lost on me. I've been told by Black colleagues the same for months now.
highprincipleswork
Jan 2016
#9
some of my fellow Sanders supporters are totally tone deaf when it comes to the AA community
steve2470
Jan 2016
#18
Despite being a Sanders supporter, I think he's blown it overall with his outreach strategy
steve2470
Jan 2016
#14
yes I wasn't aware of the huge importance of the print edition but it makes perfect sense!
steve2470
Jan 2016
#21
People keep -- RIGHTFULLY -- talking about how much Clinton sucks as a campaigner
Number23
Jan 2016
#47
After seeing the denizens of GDP moaning about how they "cried like babies" over that ad, I realized
Number23
Jan 2016
#53
They started blaming us the second our response to being told for the thousandth time that he
Number23
Jan 2016
#107
Steve, have you seen the 2nd version of his ad? He's responded to the LOUD criticism that the first
Number23
Jan 2016
#114
I agree. Wonder if the denizens of GDP will "bawl like babies" over this one?
Number23
Jan 2016
#116
I love that ad (the new one), that is the Bernie I want to feel good about, if certain people would
randys1
Jan 2016
#118
The ad is consistent with the point I keep making about the focus of the Sanders campaign
Empowerer
Jan 2016
#58
Like I said in the thread on it, it's a good ad in that it is unabashedly pro-Sanders and not anti-
Number23
Jan 2016
#83
Before 2007, Cornel West was seldom on mainstream talk shows. For that matter, neither was
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jan 2016
#100
Black folks have said this time and again ever since Sanders made the bewildering -- and stupid
Number23
Jan 2016
#49
Bitter white folks love their Cornel West who has spent seven years spewing his
underthematrix
Jan 2016
#52
New Poll Shows ‘Surging’ Sanders Losing Ground With the Voter Group He Needs Most
Gothmog
Jan 2016
#77
Cornel West used to come to my Church in Oakland often enough to speak prior to President Obama....
FrenchieCat
Jan 2016
#112