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Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
11. The electorate was 88% white in 1980
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:45 PM
Mar 2019

We were in the middle of the Emerging Republican Majority that had been astutely forecast in 1969. Minus Watergate we probably never get the 4 year reprieve from 1977 to 1981, and without the great campaigning skills of Bill Clinton we don't win in 1992 when the electorate was still 87% white.

I wish Bernie Sanders were half his current age. His great ideas will be more accepted 20 years from now. That's the unfortunate reality.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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