2016 Postmortem

sufrommich

(22,871 posts) Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:38 PM Feb 2016

I don't remember any concern about democratic primaries in southern states..

in any other primary before.What's changed?

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I don't remember any concern about democratic primaries in southern states.. (Original Post) sufrommich Feb 2016 OP

Ummm... this: Buzz Clik Feb 2016 #1

South Carolina 08 was nasty and combative, it was Bill calling Obama a fairy tale and Obama holding Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #2

Hillary won. grossproffit Feb 2016 #3

Sore Losers, Sour Grapes. Lil Missy Feb 2016 #4

^ This Stuckinthebush Feb 2016 #5

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

1. Ummm... this:

Reply to sufrommich (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:43 PM

Feb 2016

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

2. South Carolina 08 was nasty and combative, it was Bill calling Obama a fairy tale and Obama holding

Reply to sufrommich (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:03 PM

Feb 2016

rallies with infamous anti gay evangelists one of whom had called gay people child killers. It was the primary in which I realized both candidates were trading in bigotry but one of them was trading in more flavors of bigotry and used verbiage that indicated the bigotry was sincere. So I voted for Obama. Both were trading in anti gay sentiments but only one was also doing some racist sounding bullshit along with the gay baiting.

Sounds harsh, maybe. But while others bicker about the outcome in SC, I'm fairly happy that this cycle there did not involve anti gay crap. Big improvement. On the other hand our overall turnout was way down from 2008 and that's not so good.