2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How come BS supporters denigrate Hillary's wins in the South, as unimportant red states, [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)What we're saying is that the contest for the nomination didn't END when those states voted. Bernie's campaign is continuing, we have done better(though still not as well as we could be doing)with POC outside of the South, and it's the natural thing to argue, when your candidate is behind, that she or he can still win by doing better in the later states.
Hillary's campaign would be doing the same thing if she had lost the AA vote on Super Tuesday. In fact, that's exactly what she did in 2008.
Also, the states Hillary carried on Super Tuesday are going to be less important in the fall-NOT because there is a large contingent of black voters in those states(we are all glad that black voter turnout is strong in any situation) but because the WHITE voters in most of those states are hopelessly right-wing due to the fact those white the white voters, most of whom(unlike Bernie's supporters)actually ARE driven by white supremacism, are likely going to vote heavily Republican for the rest of eternity.
It would be nice to carry those states, and black voters will get and deserve the credit if the Democratic ticket does carry them, but either Dem will be able to get black voters in the fall. I assume you'll concede the point that THOSE voters aren't going to flip over to Trump, for goddess' sakes.