Where @baseballcrank is right is that blue collar whites are considered the only persuadable voters in 2020. Where @cjane87 is on the right track is that this is the result of a decision made by Republicans in 2015-16 to give up on minority outreach for a generation.
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Replying to @Tracinski @cjane87 and
Specifically, by 40% of Republican primary voters.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @cjane87 and
And then another 40% + went along with it to own the libs. It’s one of the most deeply disappointing moments in my life. Republicans could have been better than this.
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Once he had the nomination, there were no good choices. I blame nobody for what they did in November. Hillary winning was an equally bad choice.
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I will never accept that Hillary was an equally bad choice and for evidence I would point to every single day since the day Trump announced until 10 seconds ago. But I take issue with the premise of Jane's question.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank and
As I wrote a while back, what works for Trump does not work outside of Trump world. There's Trump and his base, and then there are normal people who are disgusted by racism. But if you label *all* of them racists indifferently, then you needlessly tank a coalition.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank and
There are white voters whose votes are gettable, but pissing away those votes by declaring them to be monsters if they don't care about intersectionality is dumb. To me, these are two different issues, hence my disagreement with the premise of Jane's question. -30-
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank and
But my question is: black voters and other non-white voters presumably have “gettable” votes (Rick Perry did it in Texas!)
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Replying to @janecoaston @cjane87 and
Perry had a fine record on outreach, and the WaPo "Perry is a racist because of something written a rock on some land before his dad bought the land" story is a textbook illustration of how the currency of the term 'racism' gets debased.
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GWB's record in Texas is another good example, and the way he proved unable to break 90-10 split of AA votes at the national level (buttressed in part by spurious accusations of racism from Ds & media) was a dispiriting example of how tough it was to change even pre-Trump.
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The James Byrd ad was a nasty example. Obama ran Spanish-language radio ads saying McCain & Rush Limbaugh were the same on immigration, which was definitely news to both McCain & Rush.
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