“The Fix” is in with new political spin: “predominantly non-black states”
Leave it to the Washington Post for the latest in anti-Sanders political spin. In an effort to stay one step ahead in declaring the resilient Bernie Sanders political campaign still dead, they have updated the political lexicon with an innovative new term to describe Sanders favoring sates. After Bernie swept Western Saturday with three monumental landslides, their regular political feature column “The Fix” characterized two of those battleground states, Alaska and Washington, as “states with smaller black populations” in its headline. Fair enough far as that goes, but that phrase must have proved a little clunky for use as a snappy adjective, and so by the second paragraph it came to this:
“But Alaska and Washington had two characteristics that made them very friendly terrain for Sanders: They were caucuses in predominantly non-black states. And there aren't many more of those on the calendar.”
I believe that may well be a first in American political reporting, a piercing new demographic insight. No one else, far as I can figure, has thought to differentiate American states in that manner before. How many predominantly non-black states do you figure there are in the United States of America? Without crunching all of the numbers, my own rough guess would be approximately 50.
It's not that I can't understand the point that “The Fix” was trying to make there which, simply put, is that Bernie Sanders has been losing most of the African American vote to Hillary Clinton so far, and that he has beaten her most consistently in caucus states that don't have high percentages of black voters, and there aren't many places like that still coming up. OK, that's a valid argument to advance, one that I will take on more frontally soon in a subsequent essay that will look at the overall contest between Clinton and Sanders from an important different angle. There I will address the argument that “The Fix” is tying to make. But what interests me here and now is what their careful and awkward twisting of words says about a shifting political narrative. It wasn't so long ago that pundits who routinely wrote off Bernie Sanders talked about how he only tended to do well in states with overwhelmingly white electorates. If fact that was conventional wisdom up until last week, if my memory serves me well.
Now for the first time we see a naked new political formulation (one that I predict won't “grow legs” because of how patently dumb it is). Yes friends behold! It's the predominantly non-black state! And Bernie Sanders it is said is having trouble winning them. Previously it was said that Bernie didn't do so well with minority voters in general – just with (younger) whites. But Hawaii is only 24.3% white and Sanders won 70% of the vote there. He won 73% of the Washington vote which is over a quarter non-white. Sanders also won over 80% of the Alaskan vote which has a one third non-white population. But it is true that all three of these states have “smaller black populations”, it's just that none of them are “overwhelmingly white”, and thus it is no longer such a simple sell to say Bernie Sanders struggles to attract “minority voters”. Minorities, it turns out, is far too inclusive a term. It's those predominantly non-black states that Sanders still needs to work on.
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"THEY" cannot understand WHY Bernie won't do what they tell him to do... "THEY" cannot understand WHY WE will not bend to their "wisdom..." "THEY" after all know what is best for us.... 
I'm loving the hell out of it too. And the fact that there appear to be a number of people that have serious issues with that muscle somehow makes me enjoy it even more. 
every other post of yours in this thread. So much strength of your convictions! When requested to spit out EXACTLY what you are trying to say, you suddenly do the "bye bye!" crap.
You guys are funny. Even when you think you aren't saying anything, you still say so much. 
And considering where/when he started, it's been amazing, even as I continue to agree with bravenak as to things the campaign could have done better.
BTW, sorry/grateful for your dealing with the above. 
Do you also urge Muslims to "deal with (their) own?" 
I kind of expected a non-responsive "answer" from someone who actually seems to buy into "collective guilt" inanity. The personal insult and disparagement of the site (that you nevertheless feel compelled to read and post on) are kind of a no-extra-charge bonus!
Don't try and be "subtle." You're not good at it. Just go ahead and call me a racist. I promise I won't alert.
from everyone else.
I gave you an answer. If you don't like what I said, I GENUINELY don't understand why you think I'd care. I've already told you multiple times that I've seen enough of your ignorant posts on racial issues to not want to discuss anything about race with you. And yet... HERE YOU ARE. You have certainly learned well from your buddies here, I'll give you that. They like to argue about fuck all too.
But I am so genuinely touched by your concern for where I do and do not post! Who knew you were such a fan??
And why would I need to be "subtle" when folks are all too happy to out themselves??? 
All of that adrenaline and testosterone you guys drench this board with every day is at least good for something!
I was really pleasantly surprised by his intelligent and civil response upthread. But I knew the intelligence and civility was likely to be short lived and as you can see, others made a point of trying to shoo it away as quickly as possible. As they ALWAYS have to these days.
But the fact that the people who hate it the most can't do a damn thing about it makes it oddly satisfying too. 
L. ?@tokyovampires · 2h2 hours ago
.@dilemmv I started #berniemademewhite along with other POC supporters. Stop pretending we don't exist.
It's good to see this.
