Hill's Group: Hillary Clinton flips the script

[BlueMTexpat]

In South Carolina, she's the candidate she always wanted to be. And Bernie Sanders is the one with the rocky path forward.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-south-carolina-favorables-219894

Gone are questions about her authenticity. Here, black voters say Clinton’s history as a civil rights stalwart -- she first visited the state as a college grad investigating the problem of youths incarcerated in adult jails for the Children’s Defense Fund -- trumps any trust issues that dog her elsewhere.
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The script has been flipped, for the first time, in her favor.

Her stories about her own mother’s abused and abandoned childhood resonate deeply with African-American women -- and there are about 100,000 more black women than men of voting age in the state. And to them, it is Bernie Sanders who is viewed as an unknown quantity, whose big ideas of free college and healthcare are greeted with skepticism.
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Here, older African-American voters who have struggled with racism and poverty are pragmatic, and believe in the incremental change Clinton espouses. “They don’t have the luxury of an Iowa college student” to vote for ideals, Hodges added.

Many voters say they would have been happy to support her eight years ago if it wasn’t for the historic nature of Barack Obama’s candidacy. Clinton’s support for Obama since then has only increased their desire to help her this time.

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Very, very good.

[Lucinda]

3. KNR

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Wonderful!

I think we're going to see a lot of script-shifting after today.

And I know it's true about many African-Americans supporting Obama over Hillary in 2008; I've talked to many of them, then and now. I supported Hillary in those primaries, but I fully understood the support for Obama then. And, of course, I was happy to vote for Obama in the GE.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. Same here!

[mgmaggiemg]

5. thanks for posting

cheers, maggie

[ismnotwasm]

7. Love this