"Stop blaming the Candidates for not discussing the issues..TWEET
daveweigel ✔ @daveweigel
Bit of a holiday rant: Stop blaming the candidates for "not discussing the issues" bc you're too lazy to listen. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/05/why-you-should-stop-blaming-the-candidates-if-you-dont-know-what-they-stand-for/ …
.."but the head-turning explaining comes from Nathan Baskerville, a 35-year-old North Carolina state legislator, who says: “We already know what the deal is with Trump. Tell us what your plan is to make our life better.”
What’s remarkable here is that Clinton has frequently talked about her offers to black voters. The first high-profile speech of her campaign, in Manhattan, was about criminal justice reform. “There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes,” said Clinton. She waged a heated and ultimately successful campaign for black voters in the South, at one point apologizing for a 1996 anti-crime speech where used the pop-sci term “superpredators” to refer to some black teens. She went further just two weeks ago in a speech to the NAACP, which included a quick litany of immediate promises:
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