Bernie's In

blueveinedthrobber wrote:

As long as all Dems and Independents support WHOEVER wins the democratic primary and doesn't stay home and pout. We CANNOT afford a GOP President putting more Scalia's on the bench.

This is why we never elect good leaders.

If Hillary wins the nomination, I will vote for her (although I will probably get nice and drunk before I go to the polls). But in the primary, my support and my money go to Bernie.

I say we must support WHOEVER the democrat nominee is without further comment and this is why we never elect good leaders? WTF?

ultra liberal like Bernie.

It isn’t that minority voters dislike Senator Bernie Sanders. They just aren’t familiar with him.

Sanders’ presidential campaign seems to be hitting its stride, based on polls coming out of Iowa and New Hampshire. But while he gains traction among those early primary voters, he is failing to generate enthusiasm — or even name recognition — with one key Democratic voting demographic: minorities.

As Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told The New York Times:


“We’re reaching out, but it’s no secret that Bernie represents a state that is heavily Caucasian, and his decades of work on issues of importance to African Americans aren’t known amid the national conversation on race that is underway.”

In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last week, 95 percent of nonwhite Democratic voters said they could see themselves supporting Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for the party’s nomination, but only about one-quarter of respondents said they could see themselves voting for Sanders.

Bernie addressed his relatively anemic support among African-Americans during an interview with George Stephanopoulos Sunday:


“I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

“But I think the issues that we are dealing with, combating 51 percent African-American youth unemployment, talking about the need that public colleges and universities should be tuition free, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, creating millions of jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure. These are issues that should apply to every American.”

The struggle for Sanders, who as a college student organized sit-ins against segregation and attended the 1963 March on Washington, is to make his views known to African-American communities quickly enough to have an impact on the election.

Sanders intended to do just that with an audience in Charleston, S.C., but he postponed that event after the deadly shooting there earlier this month. And when he spoke to a crowd of Latino government officials from across the country in Las Vegas in June, the Los Angeles Times reported that the room was about half-empty. Clinton, by contrast, was mobbed by fans when she spoke at the same event.
Matt Barreto, a pollster who focuses on Latino voters, told the Los Angeles Times:


“His name recognition in the Latino community is somewhere in between zero and extremely low. And you’re not going to win an election without Latino support.”

Sanders is faring much better in the early primary states. One New Hampshire poll released last week by WMUR and CNN found Sanders only eight points behind Clinton, trailing her 43 percent support with 35 percent.

Another poll by Bloomberg and St. Anselm College showed Sanders with the support of nearly a quarter of likely Democratic primary voters in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and he was gaining on Clinton’s large lead in both states.

But New Hampshire and Iowa are both over 92 percent white, according to the U.S. Census, and Sander’s home state of Vermont mirrors them racially. Vermont is 95 percent white, 1.7 percent Hispanic and only 1.2 percent black.

Demographics are not necessarily destiny; but unmarried women, minorities and millennial voters will make up a majority of the total electorate for the first time in 2016, according to pollster and former Bill Clinton advisor Stan Greenberg.

Without more support from minorities, Sanders may be tempting fate with his 2016 prospects.

Bernie Sanders Has a Long Civil Rights History — So Why Is He Struggling With Minority Voters?

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Matt Barreto, a pollster who focuses on Latino voters, told the Los Angeles Times:


“His name recognition in the Latino community is somewhere in between zero and extremely low. And you’re not going to win an election without Latino support.”