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2016 Postmortem

moondust

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10. Good point.

Reply to brentspeak (Original post)

Mon Aug 17, 2015, 11:15 PM

Aug 2015

With demographics like that there would be virtually no political pressure on him to pander or do anything else to support minorities in order to win their votes. If anything, there could be some eye-rolling or even pressure on him to simply ignore minority issues and spend all his time working for the big majority.

He did it anyway, and that shows a lot of character.

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Vermont electorate is 95% white [View all] brentspeak Aug 2015 OP

Amazing as it seems to some, there are white progressives who really care about others..... peacebird Aug 2015 #1

Sometimes people do things because it's the right thing to do. Snotcicles Aug 2015 #3

i agree. nt DesertFlower Aug 2015 #8

Why is it overwhelmingly liberal then? Reter Aug 2015 #2

Bernie evolved them. nt Snotcicles Aug 2015 #4

VT was a liberal bastion way before Bernie. Why do you think Bernie moved there from Brooklyn?nt SunSeeker Aug 2015 #12

I don't know... some here would say GUNZ lol. cherokeeprogressive Aug 2015 #13

Vermonters do love their GUNZ but I don't think that's why he moved there. SunSeeker Aug 2015 #14

I was being totally facetious. n/t cherokeeprogressive Aug 2015 #15

I know. nt SunSeeker Aug 2015 #17

Not exactly jfern Aug 2015 #22

Vermont was the first state to outlaw slavery. it was Senator Aiken cali Aug 2015 #25

It has been a liberal refuge since the 1960s. SunSeeker Aug 2015 #28

But it voted Republican jfern Aug 2015 #29

Red rural areas had yet to be overwhelmed by all the Dems in the cities like Burlington. SunSeeker Aug 2015 #31

bullshit Bernie evolved us. cali Aug 2015 #20

Well, you might think that if you suppose that white people are somehow inherently right wing. sibelian Aug 2015 #27

I am sure that when Bernie was a kid in Brooklyn RoccoR5955 Aug 2015 #5

i'm almost 74. we lived in ridgewood, queens -- DesertFlower Aug 2015 #7

: ) peacebird Aug 2015 #26

Conservatives (at Fox Nation and at DU) don't believe white men can care about civil rights Doctor_J Aug 2015 #6

It gets really tiresome, doesn' it? Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #9

Good point. moondust Aug 2015 #10

actually there is. cali Aug 2015 #21

No super black majority black congressperson should ever run for POTUS musiclawyer Aug 2015 #11

as someone said upthread, restorefreedom Aug 2015 #16

We've had presidents from states that have been openly HOSTILE to minorities.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2015 #18

Vermont is an odd duck. yes, it's overwhelmingly white cali Aug 2015 #19

Sanders endorsed Jackson in 1988 jfern Aug 2015 #23

it would have gone for him anyways. Sanders wasn't a statewide figure. cali Aug 2015 #24

But why did Bernie choose to remain in Vermont for essentially his entire political career?? DCBob Aug 2015 #30

Does that even make sense? brentspeak Aug 2015 #32