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Omaha Steve (47,894 posts) Clarence Page: Democrats must connect with working-class whites [TRANSLATION: "photo posted so you know it's a black guy who said it so please don't jump my shit, you hyper-sensitive assholes" -- SGT SB]http://www.omaha.com/opinion/clarence-page-democrats-must-connect-with-working-class-whites/article_47ede3d7-8917-5d76-91e0-572e716d45a8.html POSTED: SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2015 1:00 AM While talking to black and white Republicans recently about the Grand Old Party’s outreach efforts to voters of color, I wondered: What are Democrats doing to reach working-class whites? Much has been said and written about how desperately Grand Old Party leaders seek to woo voters of color back to the GOP, the fabled “party of Lincoln†to which earlier generations of African-Americans were fondly devoted. The surprisingly robust exodus of Hispanic, Asian, unmarried women and young voters, too, in Mitt Romney’s racially lopsided 2012 presidential election loss convinced GOP Chairman Reince Priebus and other moderate GOP leaders that, yes, maybe it’s time to spend serious time and dollars on expanding the party’s voting base. Fast forward to now: After last year’s surprisingly large Republican victories in low-turnout midterm congressional elections, Democrats are asking themselves a similar question to the one Republicans have raised about themselves: How can Andrew Jackson’s and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fabled “party of labor†expand its outreach to its own largest bloc of demographic defectors — working-class whites? FULL story at link.
onecaliberal (1,662 posts) 1. Dear Clarence,So many of them are racist hating pigs, liberals will not convince them to stop voting against themselves. Hate is powerful and blinding.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN (6,629 posts) 2. Actually it doesn't apply so much.They were 'defectors' because the Dem nominee was not white. So far, it's looking like the Dem nominee will be white this time around. If that's the case, most of them will be 'back'.
onecaliberal (1,662 posts) 3. Proves my point. Racist pigs that wouldn't vote for the African American man.
a kennedy (9,581 posts) 17. And do we think that a white woman has a better chance of winning?I'm curious about that.
onecaliberal (1,662 posts) 18. Good question.Women are the lowest in the equation to these people.
strawberries (388 posts) 4. I find your post disturbingyou have no right to group white workers in such a way. They like you are trying to survive and live healthy happy lives
onecaliberal (1,662 posts) 7. By voting for people who take a living wage awayCut their food (most food stamp recipients are white) take away healthcare, destroy planet. It is disturbing to me that people are so mean and ignorant lacking ability to think for themselves because they are blinded by lies and fear of "the other" that they will refuse to believe their own lying eyes or vote for a man because of skin color.
strawberries (388 posts) 9. do you hear yourself?I don't know one white hard working person who wants their food stamps cut, or health care taken away. They truly don't' want to destroy the planet. I don't find them mean or ignorant and trust me they do think for themselves. There in lies your problem. You want them to think like you, and act like you, well they wont. Tell me, what has the democrats done for AA voters lately, other than take them for granted.
onecaliberal (1,662 posts) 11. You don't know a white person who wants their food stamps cut? Hmmm, I wonder what they hear when republicans run around constant talking about doing just that! Yes I damn well hear myself.
hfojvt (35,608 posts) 8. the irony ismany of us talk that way about them and then seem puzzled that they do not join our side. As for the racists Kerry lost the white vote Gore lost the white vote Clinton lost the white vote. So I don't buy very much "white people didn't vote for Obama because they are racists".
CANDO (1,875 posts) 13. This.... I just don't get it. DU either has a very short memory or some people may not know a little electoral/political history. Working class whites left the party in droves as "Reagan Democrats" and have largely stayed away since then. I'm becoming very sick and tired of the race bating/blaming/crutching attitudes that are increasingly appearing here. People need to grow the hell up and remove the "everything is racist" blinders. It is a self defeating attitude at that.
Hey, DUmmies, please keep demonizing the largest demographic of voters in the country. I'm sure calling them racist bigots will draw them to you, because everyone likes to be insulted...
Omaha Steve (47,894 posts)Clarence Page: Democrats must connect with working-class whitesPOSTED: SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2015 1:00 AMWhile talking to black and white Republicans recently about the Grand Old Party’s outreach efforts to voters of color, I wondered: What are Democrats doing to reach working-class whites?Much has been said and written about how desperately Grand Old Party leaders seek to woo voters of color back to the GOP, the fabled “party of Lincoln†to which earlier generations of African-Americans were fondly devoted.The surprisingly robust exodus of Hispanic, Asian, unmarried women and young voters, too, in Mitt Romney’s racially lopsided 2012 presidential election loss convinced GOP Chairman Reince Priebus and other moderate GOP leaders that, yes, maybe it’s time to spend serious time and dollars on expanding the party’s voting base.Fast forward to now: After last year’s surprisingly large Republican victories in low-turnout midterm congressional elections, Democrats are asking themselves a similar question to the one Republicans have raised about themselves: How can Andrew Jackson’s and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fabled “party of labor†expand its outreach to its own largest bloc of demographic defectors — working-class whites?
The libs have overused the race card so often it's nearly worn out.
There was a (D)elUsionist post about that about three days ago. Long, ridiculous story short: They don't use it and Conservatives use it constantly......
Maybe Libs & Progs imagine they've detected an Inverse Race Card play; must be when conservatives point out that they (we!) want laws and governance (e.g. in college admissions) to be color-blind.
But liberals believe that being "color-blind" is racist in itself. If you refuse to see skin color, then you are denying that past when white man caused all their problems, and now owe them a debt that can only be made up with special preferential treatment.
