Non-White Liberal Internet Dean/Kucinich Progressive Left Dems!

[KoKo]

I'm wondering where the candidates are going to get the "non-internet liberal white upscale male"(according to polss for Dean, anyway) savy folks who we need to motivate to vote?

If Sharpton/Mosely-Braun get knoced out by a Dean/Kucinich machine.....then what about the other huge part of the Dem party....and why the silence?

Is it watching and waiting? Who is already a candidate who is getting grassroots or has America finally melded into the pot.....and ethnicity doesn't matter anymore?

Bush does have the highest visible and I say "visible" cabinet members from African Americans....and Elaine Chou represents Asian-Americans but what about Latino's?

And has the African/American vote gone Repug.......Is this a new demographic that the polls aren't showing but is a reality.....because Bush has been more pro-active in giving Afrcan Americans visibility?

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1. Dean Hired Moseley-Braun's Ex Campaign Manager

That's a good first step. No matter who the Democratic nominee is, he/she must assemble the full coalition to defeat Bush.

[KoKo]

2. I'm trying to think of Dean/Kuchinich's appeal to African-American/Latino'

s in the South and the Major Cities of the US.....I'm trying to think where the huge Latino population in CA is going and the huge African-Amercian Population in the South and in the NE of the US......

Are either of these candidates appealing.

I'm thinking that the Democratic Party is not the same party it was when Clinton came in......much has changed.

and both Afro/Americans/Latino's did well during Clinton and are more in line now with the vote of the Liberal Democratic White Suburban voters for the 2004 Election......I may be wrong.......and can handle flames...that's why I asked.

I like Sharpton/Moseley Braun......but know both their problems.......with identity and traction, plus some problems that got major press play in their pasts....

So. who wouldenergize voters in this group? Even labor is spit and isn't going "lock step" with Gebhardt.

I'm thinking their will be surprises.....and figured DU'ers would know first what the surprises will be!

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3. HE#$ NO!!!!!!!

Being an african american woman, I have heard alot of minorities becoming disenchanted by the democrats. They are tired of being taken for granted and white politicians raping their churches for photo ops to win elections and those same politicians forgetting about them once they are in office.
I've even heard blacks say that they have seen the worse(BUSH) and is willing to seat this election out to show the dems, that they need to practice what they preach once elected. And the dems need the black vote to get elected.
NO NO NO, they are not going to the republicans. The blacks that I know don't have to high of an opinion of Condoleeza and are luke warm at best toward Powell. They view those two as puppets of the administration, so that when the administration tries to make policies that are not african american friendly(affirmative action,public education,heatlhcare) they can say "we are concern about All americans and that I have african americans in prominent roles in my cabinet.