Will the Black Vote support the White LGBT? Do you dems even want to beat Trump? Ask yourself, do you want to win?
He has no chance at the nomination.Dont take that to mean I dont like him,I do.Currently Im voting for Warren in the primary although I thought she had no chance in the primary.Her chances have gone up with Patrick entering the race though.If he takes some of the black vote from Biden Warren could pull ahead.Blacks have voted 75-85% for 1 candidate since 1992 though and that candidate got the nomination every time so if Patrick gets some of the black vote he might get it all like Obama taking black voters from Hillary in 2008
As the video says black voters are around 25% of the voters in democrat primaries.When they vote 75-85% for 1 candidate while whites split their votes black voting power is nearly doubled.I know alot of fellow democrats getting excited over Pete because of Iowa and thinks he can win the nomination but cant explain how he will do that polling 0% with black voters or how he will get black voters.
Yeh, I guess so in regard to Booty being up in Iowa. The good news for him is that started to blow past Iowa and corrected his course and decided he could not do that, that he had to dig in hard. That he could not just write off Iowa or give them a few visits. So he has dug in very hard and practically become an Iowa resident and it is paying off in Iowa. The bad news it is has come at the cost of the making gains in the other early states down the road NH, Nev, SC. I know the polls change from day to day but last I looked the others - biden, warren, sanders- had poll numbers in iowa that were also somewhere near their poll numbers for the other states- or even better in the other states. Whereas Booty had a fairly big drop off after Iowa. Going to the top of the pack in Iowa will give him more cred in some of those states, but it has its limits too. No punchline here. Just sayin that the other candidates know what Booty knows too- ie. if you just work the bejesuzz out of Iowa you can do better in Iowa, except they were not willing to under-work the other upcoming states. So he has paid a price too and needs to get going in the other states unless he wants to just be a one-trick pony. On the other hand, Kamala has taken the same strategy as the Boot and made Iowa her live-or-die battleground and no one wants her there either, so no need to get overly analytical about her situtation- she dead. There is no reason to believe that she is going to do well in Iowa or in SC because she is allegedly black or in CA because she is from CA. bye- bye. Bootyboy is out on the hunt though, and bernie is out on the hunt, and warren is out on the hunt. I always give credit to those who go out on the hunt even if they fail-------- JOE I AM NOT LOOKING AT YOU.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blac...uted-their-support_n_5dd188aae4b0d2e79f8eb357 Black South Carolinians Say Buttigieg Campaign Misleadingly Touted Their Support A number of Black officials in South Carolina said their support for Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has been overstated or misstated completely. As recent polls out of Iowa show South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leading all Democratic primary candidates in the Hawkeye State, a controversy simultaneously unfolding in the South highlights a stubborn vulnerability in the Buttigieg campaign: his weakness among Black voters. In a report from The Intercept on Friday, three Black Democratic officials in South Carolina said the Buttigieg campaign intentionally and misleadingly implied they were supporters of Buttigieg in various press releases and promotional items. Columbia City councilwoman Tameika Devine, state representative Rev. Ivory Thigpen and Johnnie Cordero, chair of the state party’s Black Caucus, say although they agreed when asked by the Buttigieg campaign to offer their general support for the South Bend mayor’s effort to promote dialogue around racism and racial inequality, they were ultimately presented to the public as endorsers of a specific Buttigieg plan and the Buttigieg candidacy as a whole. South Carolina’s population is nearly 30% Black, and will be one of the earliest to vote in the 2020 primary. Buttigieg has struggled to register support among Black voters since declaring his candidacy, attributed in part to claims he has been slow-footed in responding to issues raised by Black voters in his home of South Bend. In an October press release touting Buttigieg’s “Douglass Plan” ― his plan to combat racial inequality ― and distributed through the HBCU Times, Devine, Thigpen and Cordero were listed as the most prominent signatories. But the three of them say their vague ― in some cases, tepid ― support for Buttigieg’s efforts was mischaracterized in order to benefit the candidate. State Rep. Thigpen, who identified himself as a state co-chair for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign, said he was alarmed when the Buttigieg campaign press release listed him as an endorser. “I thought I made it clear to them that I was a strong Bernie Sanders supporter — actually co-chair of the state, and I was not seeking to endorse their candidate or the plan,” Thigpen told The Intercept. Thigpen said the Buttigieg campaign listed him as a supporter without his permission after he told them he might agree to giving them a simple quote of support for continuing the conversation about racial inequality. Devine, the city councilwoman, endorsed the Douglass Plan but hasn’t endorsed Buttigieg for president. She said the Buttigieg campaign was “intentionally vague” when disseminating her name as a supporter of the plan, and the result is that many people will wrongly think she’s settled on Buttigieg as a candidate. “I do think they probably put it out there thinking people wouldn’t read the fine print or wouldn’t look at the details,” she said. Cordero, the chair of the Democratic Party’s Black Caucus in South Carolina, said Buttigieg himself reached out to ask for Cordero’s input on the Douglass Plan. But when Cordero raised concerns with Buttigieg campaign staff that they hadn’t sought input from Black people while crafting the plan, he says they didn’t respond before listing him as a supporter. “The long and the short of it was they never sufficiently answered my questions, so I never actually endorsed the plan,” Cordero said. “They went ahead and used my name.” In response to The Intercept’s reporting, the Buttigieg campaign reportedly shared steps it has taken to allow people on the supporters list a chance to opt out. Buttigieg will appear in the next Democratic debate, scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 20.