Harry Reid: Iowa, NH Have ‘No Diversity,’ Future of Nation Shouldn’t Be Dependent on Them

[Cali_Democrat]

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid dismissed concerns about Democratic superdelegates boosting Hillary Clinton by saying Iowa and New Hampshire are too white to decide anything.

Reid told Andrea Mitchell the process was “totally unfair” eight years ago, asking, “How in the world could we have the future of this country dependent on Iowa, which is 93 precent white, and New Hampshire, which is 97 percent white––no diversity?”

He said the future of this nation shouldn’t be decided by two overly white states.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/harry-reid-iowa-nh-have-no-diversity-future-of-nation-shouldnt-be-dependent-on-them/

[merrily]

1. Um, the future of the US won't be Senator Reid. 50 states have primaries, not 2.

But, you knew that, Senator. (Still a yooge fan of Senator Reid.)

[AZ Progressive]

2. In other words, the white vote doesn't matter

And that being said from a non-white biracial person.

[brush]

3. No, a slight correction: White votes are not the only votes that matter,

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Exactly.

[leftofcool]

15. Uh no.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Yo, Harry! People live in those states. PEOPLE!

Get over yourself.

This is a multi-state primary. Nothing is decided by one, two, or three states.

You know...it gets kinda tiring listening to people repeating this mantra that the people in my state and in New Hampshire don't count.

We're just people. Americans.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. I'm getting tired of hearing that crap, too

[TSIAS]

6. Reid is upset over Clinton's dishonesty

Claiming that NV is 80 % white. She's already trying to lower expectations.

[CoffeeCat]

8. Well, ten if Nevada is 80 percent white, than Harry Reid needs to denounce Nevada

and complain that his state has no right to make such important decisions for the country.

NV should vote 47th.

[TSIAS]

11. It's 75 % white

Obviously the Democratic contest will feature far more minorities. We see Robby Mook trying to lower expectations. He ran NV in 2008, so he knows that Clinton's claims are dishonest.

[CoffeeCat]

12. What's also interesting about NV is that at this point in the 08 campaign...

Obama was running 26 points behind Clinton. Obama went on to win more delegates than Clinton. And Obama didn't do as well with Hispanic voters.

According to the latest NV poll, Sanders was behind Clinton by 20 points. 6 points ahead of what Obama was, at this time.

Furthermore, Sanders has momentum and a blowout win from New Hampshire. Obama didn't have that and he was able to close that NV gap.

Also, Sanders did very, very well with Hispanics in Iowa. Yes, there are Hispanics in Iowa. LULAC, an organization devoted to increasing Latino voter turnout, got 12,000 Latinos to participate in the caucuses this year.

Only 1,000 participated in 2012.

And in the largest Iowa precincts, Bernie won 75 percent of those delegates and those precincts had higher Latino populations. A spokesperson from LULAC said that Latinos actually helped to solidify Bernie's strong "tie" in Iowa and that the Latino community was very supportive of Bernie. I just heard this today. In fact, the LULAC spokesperson left me a voicemail with the info that I posted.

I'll post more details tomorrow. I just thought I'd add this info to your post now. Great news, huh?

[Number23]

9. K&R

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. I love how the Dem. Bosses are suddenly using diversity as the excuse for superdelegates.

It makes no sense and in any case it is historically not the reason.

[catnhatnh]

13. Old Harry is a Mormon, right?

Ask him about the planned demographics of Deseret.....

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. Says the Mormon...

He delivered a speech at Brigham Young University to about 4,000 students on October 9, 2007, in which he expressed his opinion that Democratic values mirror Mormon values.

dafuq.

[NurseJackie]

16. This is an excellent observation!

While others may nitpick and produce statistics that show the IA and NH do have "some" small amount of diversity, Reid's greater point remains true. For all "intensive-purposes" neither of those two states have a population diversity that is representative of the rest of the country. Their perceptions are very different and do not reflect the experiences of voters throughout the rest of the country.