The Train Wreck Is Headed to California
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JoPat Wellman, Guest Blogger | May 1, 2016
Like many of you I have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly in campaigns during my lifetime—Al Gore running away from Bill Clinton and John Kerry running away from the swift boaters in two more recent campaigns. Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2008 had the good, bad, and ugly, but in this year’s primary she is running a much better campaign with a much better candidate, Hillary 2.0. Obviously, she learned a lot from the Obama Campaigns of 2008 and 2012. However, Bernie Sanders is running the worst train wreck of a campaign I have ever witnessed.
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The train wreck started before it even left the station with Sanders’ NPR interview in November 2015. The interview is dismissive of the African-American voter as not just an integral part of the Democratic Party, but as the bulwark and foundation of the party.
But that’s not important. You should not be basing your politics based on your color. What you should be basing your politics on is, how is your family doing? In the last election, in state after state, you had an abysmally low vote for the Democrats among white, working-class people. And I think the reason for that is that the Democrats have not made it clear that they are prepared to stand with the working-class people of this country, take on the big money interests. I think the key issue that we have to focus on, and I know people are uncomfortable about talking about it, is the role of the billionaire class in American society.”
Oh boy! Could that have been more obtuse?
Statements such as those, along with his reliance on his long-ago civil rights activism, were offensive to many African-American voters. Then Sanders and his campaign hierarchy claims that Sanders would win the Northern black voters or the Democrats never win the South in general elections not only diminished the importance of southern voters, but were factually inaccurate as well. Social media flipped out after seeing a video of members of the nurses’ union training volunteers on how to “talk to black voters.” After Super Tuesday boxcars were uncoupling and veering off the tracks, but Sanders and surrogates such as Nina Turner and Jane Sanders kept denigrating the Southern states, which observers recognized as code for African-American voters.
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And with the exception of the few token AA's who signed on to be a big fish in BS' small pond, much like his lavish spending, the outreach has been a bust.
No wonder there are Bernie people willing to switch to Trump.
Mingle with us, the people.
