Bernie Sanders lost the primary after South Carolina, that’s the third state. Bernie stayed in the race because he is not a democrat and wanted to build his machine. Sanders lost to Clinton by more votes and delegates than Clinton lost to Obama. So yes he got shoved in an alley because that’s where he belonged. He stayed in way too long and should have left earlier. He’ll probably do the same thing this go around.
He also speaks from a values perspective which helps the message reach a broader audience. I would not be surprised to see his numbers among AA voters tick up a bit.
Warren and Beto are running stupid campaigns imo.The writings on the wall what a candidate needs to do to get the democrat nomination and they are barely fighting for it. Biden has the black vote because of Obama but it is not 100% locked in imo.Harris is the only one running a smart campaign by trying to take the black vote from Biden by force or at least being second in line for their block of votes if Biden blows up.Harris isn't paying much attention to Warren or Sanders.They both are ahead of her overall but she knows if she can get the black vote from Biden she will jump ahead of both of them.Eventually around 80% of black voters will line up behind one candidate and that candidate will be the nominee,its been that way since 1992.Warren and Beto are paying more attention to illegals and Hispanics than black voters.At this point they little chance of ever winning them over imo.Petes police department has screwed him with black voters forever,he has no chance imo. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortn...stics-of-his-africanamerican-support-n2550853 CNN Anchor Asks Buttigeig Why He Has No Support From Black Voters | Posted: Jul 30, 2019 2:00 PM South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is struggling to gain African-American support in his bid for the presidency. If he didn't know how bad it was before, he does now, thanks to CNN's Chris Cuomo. The network anchor confronted Buttigieg on his program Monday night about his trouble gaining ground with the demographic. For instance, he cited a recent CNN poll that put his support among blacks at zero. “When we look at the polls that came out today from Quinnipiac," Cuomo noted, "you struggle with African-Americans, literally, defined almost at 0 percent. Why?” “African-American voters are tired of having been lied to or taken for granted by politicians," Buttigieg countered. "When you are new on the scene, when you haven’t been known for years or decades, and when you’re not yourself from a community of color, you’ve got a lot of extra work to do in order to validate what you have to say and earn that trust.” Buttigieg's issue with the black community could be related to how he handled a recent police shooting in South Bend. A white police officer, Sgt. Ryan O'Neill, killed 54-year-old African-American Eric Logan after Logan ran at him with a knife, according to O'Neill. Although the city had purchased body cameras for the force, O'Neill was not wearing one when he pulled the trigger. Buttigieg has also faced some heat for firing the city's first black police chief and for deciding not to release audio tapes of police officers who were reportedly uttering racial slurs. African American members of the community have demanded answers from the mayor and Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski, and Buttigieg was even confronted about the controversy at last month's DNC debates. He's admitted he could have done better, but pushed back at constituents who accused him of complete inaction. "I don’t want to seem defensive, but we have taken a lot of steps," the mayor declared at a town hall last month. "They clearly haven’t been enough. But I can’t accept the suggestion that we haven’t done anything." As the Wall Street Journal notes, Buttigieg's support among black voters appears to be even less than that of President Trump, who the mayor has identified as a racist. To start with, Mr. Buttigieg appears to have even lower black support than the president he calls racist. In the 2016 election, Mr. Trump received 8% of the African-American vote, according to exit polls. More recently, even after the House passed a resolution condemning him for racism, a Hill-HarrisX poll reported President Trump enjoying 13% approval among black voters. Buttigieg will take the debate stage again this week in Detroit. Follow along on the Townhall live blog both tonight and Wednesday night starting at 7:30 p.m.!
Pete Buttigieg doesn't need the black vote, nor does any other candidate. He needs the white working class and middle class vote who still dominate the voting electorate. That's going to change in the 2030's, but right now it's the average white voter which counts. Pander to blacks at his own risk as that'll cost him and any other dem candidate white votes.
The last time a democrat candidate won the democrat primary without the majority of the black vote was 1988. Hillary got the majority of the white and Hispanic vote in 2008 but still lost the primary to Obama. Hillary and Sanders were even with the white vote in 2016 until the South Carolina primary .Black voters picked Hillary and it was over from that point.Good luck to any candidate using your strategy.
Tony, you poor stupid fuck, you just don't get it. Blacks did not get Clinton or Obama elected, the white working class did. I called this same shot in 2016 and you leftists said the same shit then. The black vote is not enough to offset the white working and middle class vote, that's just a statistical fact. Obama made great gains into the white voting block and he won. Hillary completely blew off the white voting block and got her ass handed to her. What voting block did Trump do well in? Working and middle class whites. Let me give it to you straight, just like I did in 2016. The democrat candidate can get the same overwhelming percentage of Black, Hispanic and every lunatic fringe group, and they will lose unless they get back the white voters they lost to Trump. If Trump keeps the same numbers of that voting block he had in 2016, (which I will grant you it's debatable that he can), Trump will defeat the dem candidate. If the left can make reasonable gains in that white voting block, Trump or any other republican will lose, and that's the way it's going to work for the next 10-15 years. Then and only then will the minority vote be a pivot point. For Trump or any republican in the next 3 cycles to gain minority vote share would be significant in the outcome, for democrats it means nothing until the 2030's.
Captain Oblvious, you dumb stupid fuck.Obama got 39% of the white vote in 2012,Hillary got 37% in 2016.White voter turnout was about the same.Trump taking whites votes is not why he won.Trump won because 70% of black voters voted in 2012 and 60% in voted in 2016.A change in white voters to Trump had nothing to do with it thats why Hillary got millions more votes than Trump and Trump got fewer votes than Hillary in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008.
Educate yourself before posting in the future dumbass.Obama got 39 % of the white vote ,Hillary got vote 37%. There was no great migration of white voters to Trump you stupid motherfucker. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2012 https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2016 A 2% change in the white vote will not make as much of a difference as a 10% change in black voter turn out,especially when blacks vote 90% democrat which nearly doubles the impact of their vote when whites vote around 60-40.That is the same reason the black vote is so important in the primary.Blacks vote 80% for 1 candidate while other groups splits their votes more evenly.