NYT: Bernie Sanders has a "non-white problem"

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/politics/bernie-sanders-lags-hillary-clinton-in-introducing-himself-to-black-voters.html

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Maybe his campaign should air a couple good ads in SC in Q4, with pictures of his civil rights activist sit-ins in the 1960s ? Maybe it attracts more blacks to his campaign.

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Maybe his campaign should air a couple good ads in SC in Q4, with pictures of his civil rights activist sit-ins in the 1960s ? Maybe it attracts more blacks to his campaign.

That wouldn't work. Nothing would work, tbh. Clinton will crush the other Dems among Blacks.

I don't think it's impossible for Sanders to get a decent share of Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native-Americans.

But there need to be a few factors for this to happen: Sanders needs to continue to gain in the "white" states of IA and NH in the coming months, do well in the debates and then defeat Hillary in those 2 states.

At the same time, the Sanders people need to run a flawless campaign, targeted at minority voters in SC, FL and NV - with ads of him and his working class policies such as a good minimum wage and against big corporations and billionaires (while showing Hillary as a corporate enabler and an out-of-touch big-business type who's wealthy herself and therefore not like the average minority voter).

Maybe then he has a chance in the later primary states due to momentum ...

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What an unbelievably patronising thread. Hardly any better than the "still on the plantation" rhetoric you hear from the right. The idea that black people will vote for someone just because you show people a couple of pictures of them and Jesse Jackson together is patently absurd and takes the audience for easily swayed simpletons.

Sanders himself said basically the same what I said:

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http://newsone.com/3137129/bernie-sanders-plan-to-win-african-american-votes-2016-presidential-election

And here is what I said:

Maybe his campaign should air a couple good ads in SC in Q4, with pictures of his civil rights activist sit-ins in the 1960s ? Maybe it attracts more blacks to his campaign.

That wouldn't work. Nothing would work, tbh. Clinton will crush the other Dems among Blacks.

I don't think it's impossible for Sanders to get a decent share of Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native-Americans.

But there need to be a few factors for this to happen: Sanders needs to continue to gain in the "white" states of IA and NH in the coming months, do well in the debates and then defeat Hillary in those 2 states.

At the same time, the Sanders people need to run a flawless campaign, targeted at minority voters in SC, FL and NV - with ads of him and his working class policies such as a good minimum wage and against big corporations and billionaires (while showing Hillary as a corporate enabler and an out-of-touch big-business type who's wealthy herself and therefore not like the average minority voter).

Maybe then he has a chance in the later primary states due to momentum ...