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In reply to the discussion: Bernie just equated working voters with white voters, again. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)86. Yeah, the TPM piece really troubled me
I also thought he was a more or less good guy being badly managed, and that really raised a lot of questions for me.
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I don't see it, either. I think they are looking at something and finding it because they WANT it to
Hiraeth
May 2016
#3
Then you can't do math. Any majority of working voters would have to include a substantial
pnwmom
May 2016
#4
Considering that 90% of minorities consider Trump the scum of the earth and the percentages of
Number23
May 2016
#64
Ironically, that's the only statement you've made in this thread that I agree with. Buh Bye!
Tarheel_Dem
May 2016
#94
There is a lot you don't know about that period. During the 90s the Clintons were setting up this
Baobab
May 2016
#96
Even though you don't have to justify anything to anyone....I appreciate your post
Digital Puppy
May 2016
#40
"Sanders knows this, he just wants to get a slice of the slightly less racist white people"
Number23
May 2016
#63
If you mean he wanted to raise the lid on social security earnings, of course that should happen.
pnwmom
May 2016
#49
a formal survey? lol. Look, where I was working there are more black people than white
Hiraeth
May 2016
#30
The youger blacks that have talked are not registered to vote and think the whole thing is a joke.
Hiraeth
May 2016
#34
I think it's arrogant to say that people vote against Bernie because they lack information
gollygee
May 2016
#35
After reading your posts in this thread, I'm not the slightest bit surprised that black people would
Number23
May 2016
#68
They voted for President Obama. And I think they will vote for Hillary and against Trump.
pnwmom
May 2016
#44
I agree that he's not doing it purposely -- the same as some of the problems with women.
pnwmom
May 2016
#39
So women, African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos don't belong to the working class.
Agnosticsherbet
May 2016
#29
PoC have fit nicely into the Hillary Clinton victim/aggressor/divider policy. More the pity for the
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#51
Ah, 'inference!' A valid literary method of both communicating and understanding
LanternWaste
May 2016
#90
i still wonder if it's lack of good advisors, his campaign is full of people who hate clinton
JI7
May 2016
#82
I don't see nor do I even hear of any quotes or suggestions that Bernie did as such.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#76
BS' constant derision of "identity politics" wasn't a dogwhistle, it was a foghorn. I've known....
Tarheel_Dem
May 2016
#95