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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:31 AM
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83. No, she thinks that hard working African-Americans are a different demographic
who respond to different messages as voters, because they have different concerns. And she is correct. Just as hard working Latinos are a different demographic. And hard working women are a different demographic.

She is trying to avoid using the pejorative term "Reagan Democrats" which hardly applies anymore since so many of these people were not even old enough to vote when Reagan was alive.

Obama said that we wants unity and yet his surrogates have manufactured this divisive issue that calls a part of the Democratic base that did not vote for Kerry or Gore because they were perceived of as out of touch with the needs of the working class "racists". Pardon me, but I did not know that Kerry or Gore were Black.

Hillary uses the term "hard working" because "working class" sounds elitist and snobbish to the working class. Sort of like someone going up to a Black person and saying "Excuse me, Negro".
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