Well if it were about that , I’m sure you could use data and polls and stats to support damn near whatever you wanted, so could I, so could anyone.
Given an election that was awfully close.
But hey, why not just throw out a hail Mary hoping for womens votes again.
Let’s try a Hispanic this time, there’s a big Hispanic population… Who can we drum up that seems like they might have a chance , instead of finding the strongest actual candidate.
This is the impression I get of democratic candidate selection as of late.
Meanwhile Republicans are like well, let’s get someone famous, who cares anything else about them, it’s just like prom… Popular , that’s all we need.
I will concede that Trump has sent fewer American servicemen off to die in an unnecessary war than either Bush did.
But I’m not yet ready to call it on the long term impact of the Trump presidency. We’re still in the middle of it. As previous administrations opened the door for Trump, we have to wait and see what future problems this administration is opening the door to. Maybe in twenty years, we’ll have a President who’s even worse than Trump and whose election was made possible because of the lowering in standards we’re going through now.
Except you didn’t cite any polls showing people voted for Obama because he’s black. And you know, here in Great Debates, supportive data is usually pretty important, hence the calls for cites. I’m not surprised I couldn’t find any supporting your theory, but if you can, by all means, show us. The old, “Anybody can find data to support any view” is disingenuous and dodgy, frankly.
Actually there already is one. The pew research article says that 7 percent of white voters said race was an important factor and 96 percent of them voted for McCain.
So you’ve got a whole 6. Something percent who admitted it
Quite possibly. Black people, taken as a group, have very different experiences than white people do in their interactions with various levels of governmental authority. And while the Dems don’t have a great track record for ameliorating that, they know the GOP plays a very active role in widening that gap.
In the last few decades, black voters overwhelmingly support Democrats. They’ve overwhelmingly supported white Democrats over black Republicans at times. They overwhelmingly vote Democratic regardless of the race of the candidates.
Never at 95 percent.
Not to mention all the other articles.
Anyway, point wasn’t to prove that. Just to prove it could easily be argued…with stats.
Including the stats that that show some voters chose McCain just because he wasn’t the black guy.
Seems clear to me Democrats know recent elections have run very close so one strategy they’ve taken is to trot out pet group candidates in hopes it swings them the extra 5 percent they need. Whether they are really their best representative or not.
Hillary was another example
Find the strongest candidate instead and I think 2020 will give a better chance against Trump.
I see no reason to believe this, unless you believe that qualified and solid non-white-male candidates are extremely rare.
Of what? The vast majority of Hillary supporters (and Bernie supporters, for that matter) that I’ve spoken too supported that candidate because they believed their preferred candidate had the best combination of chances to win and matching on the issues.
This is what I and pretty much every Democrat I’ve ever spoken to advocate. We want the best candidate in 2020. Do you really believe we, or Democrats in general, don’t want the strongest candidate? We might disagree on who exactly is the strongest candidate, but what you appear to be putting forward here strikes me as delusional.
The notion that Hillary was only pushed because she was a woman is silly. She’s got tons of experience in politics, has incredible name recognition, is fairly moderate, and is massively establishment. There are lots of reasons why she would have been appealing to the democratic establishment as a candidate.
Unfortunately charisma wasn’t one of them.
(They also underestimated the massive Russian misinformation campaign that she’d be facing, but I don’t fault them for not predicting that - and I’m confident that any other candidate would have faced the same thing.)
I’m okay with the Gulf War (the one over Kuwait) and the Afghanistan War. But I don’t think the Panama War and the Iraq War (the second one) were necessary.