Working class people of color voted for Hillary. How many times do we need to say this? https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1120003935220183041 …
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Also massive and coordinated vote suppression actions by specific state governments.
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I think that Clinton thought she might be able to win big.
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And jeet is at the straight up lying portion of the program. Jeet knows hillary lost a lot of support among whites for egat they called identity politics ... something bernie called a distraction. Hillary went to black communities bernie would not go near.
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This was also due to the fact that Obama was a once in a generation rock star politician who appealed to every demographic except hard core tea party/pre-maga loons.
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In addition: Being the first ever african american major party presidential candidate in the history of the country's general election might tend to increase african american voter turnout in a way that a white establishment woman with decades of baggage might not.
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I'd love to know how you arrived at the conclusion about why HRC got fewer support among people of color than Obama in 2012. She did better than pre-Obama democrats in terms of support among people of color.
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it's.....it's almost like something was passed that made it harder for some people to vote.
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not to mention, even without the gutting of the VRA, it's really not that difficult to understand why POC were more excited to vote for Barack Obama than Hillary Clinton.
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It’s called voters suppression in your world
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As a Canadian you may not be familiar with US civil rights history. SCOTUS overturning VRA Sec. 5 in 2013 had a large impact on turnout among POC. Stacey Abrams highlights this issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 …
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