Reply #10: What do any of the candidates really have to offer "minorities?"

[DuctapeFatwa]

Minorities tend to be more concerned about a Living Wage and job training than campaign finance reform or capital gains tax.

Since any candidate who made a serious committment to anything that would significantly improve the lives of minorities, or low income people in general (in which group minorities are disproportionately represented) would in so doing, obliterate any chances he might have to acquire the corporate money needed to be elected.

In addition, US society is in a process of rapidly escalating polarization, along political lines to a degree, but more emphatically along a rich-poor divide, as that gap widens.

This means that even if money were not a factor (and face it, money is the primary factor, no pun intended), any candidate who sincerely attempted to resonate with minorities would risk alienating his base.