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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Lost the Black Vote Long Before Super Tuesday [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)120. And somehow she got greater than eighty percent of the black vote so far...
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You won't gloat about what? Helping to elect a corrupt or crazy President?
Live and Learn
Mar 2016
#205
It will say that, if things don't change. That doesn't mean it will be a good thing.
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#11
Then don't cry about the results you end up with. At that point many won't want to hear you.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#68
Yes. Right. Obama had the power to change things for blacks in the past 8 years.
politicaljunkie41910
Mar 2016
#102
And let us not forget that Obama tried to chain Social Security. The Republicans said no to that!
DhhD
Mar 2016
#136
There's also a running narrative telling voters that he has a problem with diverse states
Ned_Devine
Mar 2016
#81
“Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton's efforts to push these policies resulted in the continued
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#9
You know she will. HRC never forgets her friends, just as Bill never forgets his.
Hekate
Mar 2016
#150
Good article. Good points. Unfortunate, however, the wedge driven here...
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#17
I guess White Liberals have never supported Black causes, while the DLC & Third Way have?
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#62
Well, perhaps Hillary has done a better job of that, or perhaps not...
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#94
You tried to warn them, Bravenak. All you got was a time out for your trouble.
SunSeeker
Mar 2016
#23
On the day after we have access to more information and can make better judgement of what has
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2016
#46
So the Black vote was rightfully his? Did you bother to ask any black people about this first? nt
GoldenEagle16
Mar 2016
#34
Saying he lost the black vote could be construed as implying that as well.
AtomicKitten
Mar 2016
#90
Don't sell your snark short. It's definitely nasty, false, and mean-spirited.
AtomicKitten
Mar 2016
#157
endless vacay for bad behavior - so many others have been TS'd for much, much less
AtomicKitten
Mar 2016
#214
I love how people that can't vote in juries are ever so terribly concerned about YOUR "bad behavior"
Number23
Mar 2016
#224
well at least you're consistent with your blacksplaining and divisiveness
AtomicKitten
Mar 2016
#233
So you say that bravenak and I are "blacksplaining" and then accuse US of "playing the race card?"
Number23
Mar 2016
#236
Oh. My. God. Just when I didn't think the paternalistic, clueless claptrap could get any worse
Number23
Mar 2016
#238
Yeah! Great to see you! Your analysis was so spot on as to be accurate for multiple
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#44
Bernie's campaign did make early mistakes, although most have been corrected.
Ken Burch
Mar 2016
#75
It does not negate what they do, but it doesn't make it our campaign's fault.
Ken Burch
Mar 2016
#91
Skinner himself came out and posted against that other OP. But somehow, THAT'S the real one
Number23
Mar 2016
#225
thanks for conceding that the author of the top posted hogwash is fact/logic-challenged
stupidicus
Mar 2016
#147
oh, it's now racist to point out who BLM still has to protest and who gives BLM the bum's rush
MisterP
Mar 2016
#152
outing myself as an Angeleño, but the closest analogy seems to be the Bus Riders Union
MisterP
Mar 2016
#173
it's not an actual union, but big-city people are inured to seeing double-jointed buses
MisterP
Mar 2016
#248
You have not posted enough in the aa group to know what evidence we have posted there
bravenak
Mar 2016
#195
What should Bernie Sanders have done when he was about to give a speech about Social Security
Eric J in MN
Mar 2016
#184
yeah, that was the Seattle incident--they seem to have been disconnected and sorta fundie, too
MisterP
Mar 2016
#216
I don't believe he had the chance of getting the Black vote from the very beginning....n/t
asuhornets
Mar 2016
#242
The way to win the African American vote would have alienated many of Sanders supporters
Gothmog
Mar 2016
#251