11/08/2022, The Midterms, aka build on 2020 aka The Election Thread

[cdm]

Warren dropping out would not help bring in Black voters. I think instead of obsessing over her that camp should strategize about how to do that. Because that’s who any candidate needs to appeal to - that’s the base.

This is all of course really informal but I’ve been keeping an eye on discussions re: Black voters preferring Biden and the major recurring themes seem to be:

Name recognition
Trust (this one surprised me!) and distrust of the other options
A return to Obama-era policies & normalcy
He will improve what they started with ACA
Relatable

^^^ This 110%.

Over the past three-four days there seems to have no self reflection in the Bernie camp as to why black and brown voters went to the polls for Biden. Instead the mentality was "how stupid of them". Totally self defeating and not at all a surprise.

[allegro]

^^^ This 110%.

Over the past three-four days there seems to have no self reflection in the Bernie camp as to why black and brown voters went to the polls for Biden. Instead the mentality was "how stupid of them". Totally self defeating and not at all a surprise.

Brown, not so sure. Latino votes largely went to Sanders in Nevada and Texas, but a lot of them were younger voters (wherein the remaining demographic did not bring in a very large group of younger voters).

Black, absolutely the majority, 100% proven, undisputed, not based on Twitter, based on outcome so far, including half of the youngest demographic of voters in SC, to Biden. He beat Obama’s black turnout in South Carolina. He’s pretty much matched Obama’s black support in other states so far.

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s endorsement made the difference, then South Carolina made the difference, then it was like a big wave of black voters. Which evidently influenced white voters. Which ain’t a bad thing.

I watched Joy Reid last night and she said that a LOT of blacks in the south were going to Bloomberg, until Warren eviscerated him. Then they were waiting. Then Rep.Clyborn spoke, “Joe knows us.” And she said even her two young sons said they are voting for Biden, which she said surprised her.

[cdm]

Brown, not so sure.

I almost didn't include that and you're probably right.

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s endorsement made the difference...

It's amazing how ass backwards he fell into that endorsement but, like so many things, here we are.