they aren't "safe" areas. They were longtime GOP areas that became Dem pickups. Western PA is old FDR coalition-land, that used to vote Dem but flipped to GOP because of racism. That realignment isn't changing whether we nominate sanders or bloomberg or warren.
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sure, I would never say otherwise. Compete everywhere, 50-state-strategy, reduce the damage at the margins, all that. But this notion of a broad cross-partisan working-class revolution to upend all of American politics against corporate centrism isn't a real thing.
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Bernie is building a working class movement. We have no idea how far it can go. Why put it down? why nay say? this is a real movement and it has a significant base among young wc voters and Hispanics of all ages. there is a need for it.
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it's not just rural areas, it is small and midsized cities. Allentown, Manchester, Youngstown, Fresno... Milwaukee! many of these have significant Black populations as well.
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Obama (Paraphrasing): "the jobs have been gone for 25 years, and they're not coming back.. so they cling to their guns and their religion..." Why didn't either Clinton or Obama BRING some jobs back? Clinton made it worse and Obama did little to make it better except auto bailout.
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Nobody's writing off the white working class or rural voters. The unpersuadables are the voters who are so strongly committed to white supremacy that they are unmoved by any populist economic policies.
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if you avoid going out to rural areas or working class white areas then I think it's fair to say you are writing them off -- and will be seen as writing them off. Again, this isn't a Sanders critique. Obama said the same thing.
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