There are more than six Whites currently vying for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Could this lead to a serious possibility of the White Vote within the Democratic party being split? Might it behoove some of these White would-be candidates to drop out of the race early and thus avoid divisive splits within the White Vote?
Likewise, with so many Whites after the post, is there not a risk that they would dilute White identity in the upcoming election, making it harder for Whites to be able vote according to White interests?
Micheal Moore is white. George Bush is white. Al Gore is white. Rush Limbaugh is white. As you pointed out, there are 6 white guys trying for the Democratic nomination.
So my question to you is…what the heck are white interests?
No comment in general, but december’s point is particularly true in the case of “Hispanics”/"Latinos and “Asians”. The people who fall into these super-broad categories don’t really have anything to do with one another, and it shows. Heck, no one has yet been able to tell me what, exactly, a “race” or super-ethnicity is. In America, these groups of immigrants don’t really have anything in common with other group members.
I assume the OP is supposed to be a joke, but I’ll play along and take it seriously.
There’s absolutely NO chance that Al Sharpton or Carol Moseley-Braun is going to win the Democratic nomination, so the point is moot anyway.
And even if we assumed that the “white” vote ought to be a monolith that rallies around one agreed-upon white candidate (a pretty silly assumption), there’s no chance of a “split” white vote leading to a black nominee. Early in the primary season, it will become obvious that several of the white candidates have no chance of winning (Dennis Kucinich will abandon ship first… and I’d say Bob Graham will quit shortly afterward), and they’ll drop out of contention. Their supporters will gravitate toward one of the remaining white candidates.
But one wonders… why isn’t the OP equally worried that Braun and Sharpton will split the black vote?
Without cites, I believe this is not a unique situation. There usually are multiple candidates in an election. Most of whom drop out and it comes down to a few of the most popular at which time the party decides on one nominee for president. Often the VP will be one of the more popular candidates, hopefully with similar views on political agendas. If not, then usually? a senator from a populous state (electoral votes) or a likable personality? will be chosen as VP. (likable to the party)
So what’s different this time?
If I just got wooshed :rolleyes: and this is satire, then forgive my ignorant ass.
No. All Whites will vote for Bush. His racist GOP has been a strong supporter of White Rights. The Dems are irrelevant. Only minoritites vote Democratic.
Because of the history of blacks and whites in America, that still affects the lives of black Americans today in a number of ways, but is not a factor in the lives of most whites, given that we’re the majority and all?
Just a guess.
It all depends on what interests they share in common. In an era when the GOP power structure and the country-club set were pretty much the same thing, and that country-club set was a quiet but reliable reservoir of anti-Semitism, Jews voted reliably Democratic. That continued for awhile, for a variety of reasons, but they’re a bit less reliably Democratic now.
Hispanics have been heavily Democratic, because it’s the GOP that has talked about giant fences along the Mexican border and stuff like that. Even Hispanics that have been legally in the US for generations have taken that rhetoric somewhat personally at times. Eventually, they too will be less reliably Democratic as they mainstream and are accepted into society.
But the frequent reality that people from a common background might have reason to have common political interests and/or sympathies is hardly an indication that they’re ‘subhuman’.
I’m not sure whether the attitude reflected in that suggestion is one of prejudice or ignorance, or a melding of the two to the point of indistinguishability.
I liked the OP…a lot. I’m not sure if it was in the correct forum, but I liked it very much.
I’m a Republican and I’m a gal who’s a Lovely Shade of Brown[sup]TM[/sup]. When political pundits start yammering on about the black vote it’s as if they think we’re some sort of Borg-esque collective hive.
Just like I figured, but I had to check ya’…
If not for myself, then for the few who might think this was an acceptable premise and argue in support of it. It is in the GDs forum.
Even if we presume that blacks are of one view regarding the problems facing blacks in America, it does not mean they are monolithically in lockstep as to what the best solutions to those problems are. The latter really is a silly assumption, and that is precisely the assumption made when people talk about the “black vote.”
Exsqueeze me? Are you cereal? I’m a Anglo-Scots-American (I can prove it; just watch me try to dance!) and I’ve voted Democratic the last five elections!
When you can show me someplace where 90+ per cent of white voters routinely vote for the same party, year in and year out, you’ll have an argument. But in reality, white voters are NOT that monolithic.
Black voters, on the other hand, are. In almost every part of the U.S., 90+ per cent of the black vote goes to the Democrat in almost every election.
