Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumWinners and losers from the South Carolina Democratic primary (Hillary Group)
Source: Washington Post by Aaron Blake
Hillary Clinton: No, this win was not unexpected, but it is still a win for Clinton and it appears to be an absolute drubbing. She has now won two straight states, and she is clearly the momentum candidate heading into Super Tuesday which is, after all, just three days away. The question from here is whether Clinton can begin to put the race away in short order or if Sanders can hang around somehow despite increasingly daunting delegate math. Thats a far different conversation than we were having after Clinton got blown out in the New Hampshire primary two and a half weeks ago.
Black voters: Eight years after South Carolina sent Barack Obama further on his way to becoming the first black president, black voters sent a message Saturday that was loud and clear: We aren't going anywhere. Early exit poll numbers suggest the black share of the electorate could hit a new record about 6 in 10 voters in Saturday's primary. That would exceed even the percentage in 2008, when the eventual first black president was on the ballot. That record turnout comes after a South Carolina campaign that was focused intently on wooing black voters even more so than in 2008. The combination of those two things mean black voters just asserted themselves as a real force in 2016.
Bernie Sanders: We pretty much knew this wasn't going to be close, but it turned into a disaster for Sanders. Yes, it's one state, but Sanders had one task here: To beat expectations when it comes to black voters. He didn't do that -- at all. He lost their votes a whopping 87-13, according to the most recent exit polls. A while back, a top Sanders adviser mused that he could win South Carolina with 30 percent of the black vote; that proved to be a foolhardy goal. And it's not just that black voters like Clinton better; they didn't seem to trust Sanders either. Just 52 percent said they would trust Sanders to handle race relations. Nearly 9 in 10 said the same of Clinton.
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Young voters: At this rate, all future candidates might as well give up on trying to build a campaign around the support of young people. Despite tens of thousands of people showing up to Sanders rallies, and young people favoring him overwhelmingly so far, they just aren't showing up to vote like he needs them to. Fewer than 1 in 6 voters in South Carolina were under the age of the 30. And it follows a pattern of young people just not giving Sanders the turnout he needs. In fact, young voters were less of the electorate there than in any of the first three states
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)SC has been picking winners, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won in this state.
Cha
(297,196 posts)livetohike
(22,142 posts)vote, exactly what kind of movement is it?
They are not motivated to vote. Are they motivated to write their Representatives/ call their Representatives.
What is he asking they do? Or is this just all about him and his ego?
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah
ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Remember when this song was used by Nike to sell shoes on TV?
Who would have thought the Beatles would be reduced to TV jingle artists?
And now pop rock sells us politicians!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The surviving Beatles sued them for using the song without their permission.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)couldn't they do that just as well elsewhere? Were the huge rallies just meant to create an illusion? If so, it hasn't panned out. And if winter break has already started, college turnout may be even for worse for BS.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)big party event young students would flock to elsewhere? I thought I heard something like that on cable tv.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Bernie Sanders: We pretty much knew this wasn't going to be close, but it turned into a disaster for Sanders. Yes, it's one state, but Sanders had one task here: To beat expectations when it comes to black voters. He didn't do that -- at all. He lost their votes a whopping 87-13, according to the most recent exit polls. A while back, a top Sanders adviser mused that he could win South Carolina with 30 percent of the black vote; that proved to be a foolhardy goal. And it's not just that black voters like Clinton better; they didn't seem to trust Sanders either. Just 52 percent said they would trust Sanders to handle race relations. Nearly 9 in 10 said the same of Clinton.
Yeah, Hillary has won the last two states.. and the last 3 out of 4!
yallerdawg!
Cha
(297,196 posts)cripe sake!
yallerdawg
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)You have to build trust.
And it can't be built on someone else's Republican propaganda. Democrats aren't buying that!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)It's getting better everyday now!
spooky3
(34,447 posts)I've been on a lotta juries lately...
Cha
(297,196 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)But I do the heck out of toast!
With eggs. bacon, waffles - and smothered and covered hash browns!
spooky3
(34,447 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)About 8 times this week.
spooky3
(34,447 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)the under-30 turnout will be low this election.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)during Spring Break!
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)MSMITH33156
(879 posts)put America as a winner.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)They're not buying the free stuff anymore.
Bernies ralleys have the same effect as a rock concert.
They don't just gather en masse for the music. Its the crowd, the after party and the social media clicking & liking, after the fact.
And with half of them heading out this week for Spring Break, the election will have to wait till they return and their bank cards are being used for something other than political donations to bernie sanders.
His claim of youth voters is b.s. As is his "revoluuuushon"
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Isn't this the guy who loves black people so much he was willing to go to jail to give them freedom and civil rights and shit?