From 2008: Clinton Touts White Support

[XemaSab]

As if the divisions between race and gender in the Democratic Party hadn’t been further exposed through Tuesday night’s exit polls — and by a very heated exchange on CNN between Donna Brazile and Paul Begala — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s interview with USA Today on Wednesday is further mining those tense depths.

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.

It “found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/clinton-touts-white-support/?_r=0

[UMTerp01]

1. Yup...and she couldn't win without Black votes either....

and didn't win!!! Why are we relitigating 2008?

[PufPuf23]

2. Great article for context. Thank you. eom

edit

This should have been response to XemaSab.

[forjusticethunders]

3. And notice how Bernie is essentially running on the same strategy

The parallels are actually quite strong:

Bernie didn't start getting blown out for sure with the black vote until he started flailing in South Carolina, exactly where 2008 Bill started saying insensitive shit which pushed a lot of Black fencesitters towards Obama once it was clear he was a legit candidate.

Ironically that was another reason why Hill was vulnerable; it took time for Hillary to mend fences with the AA community (a lot of vocal Hillary supporters were doubtful on her or looking at other candidates, or even supported Bernie), and had Sanders taken the lead there, then suddenly the narrative around mass incarceration, Hillary's race-baiting in 2008 begins to favor him far more.