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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalBlack Women Decided the 2016 Democratic Nominee
I know that this was true in Texas and in all of the Super Tuesday primary states https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/03/black-women-decided-the-2016-democratic-nominee/
“The biggest missed political opportunity in recent memory is probably Deval Patrick’s decision, after losing quite a bit of sleep, not to run for president in 2016.”
“At the time, the path seemed fairly clear: The former Massachusetts governor could run as Barack Obama had, on unifying optimism, progressive politics, and a strong connection to the black voters who make up a pillar of the primary electorate.”
“Hillary Clinton’s team was quietly afraid of him. One reason for that is obvious: Clinton was a far weaker candidate than the media and Democratic establishment thought.”
“The other possible reason just as obvious, but less discussed: Patrick could have won the primary. The Democratic primaries, as they are currently built, favor a black candidate. The winning formula in recent years has been to build a coalition from older black voters plus another group: white progressives for Obama; white moderates for Clinton. And the Democratic electorates in Deep South states, which vote early in the primary process, are dominated by black voters. That was where Clinton won in 2016, despite no particular attention to the region, and where Bernie Sanders lost it.”
I suspect that this characterization will also hold true for 2020
The estimated cost to taxpayers of Trump's leisure activity now stands at $83,000,000
https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1068991704437571584Trump will not speak at George H.W. Bush's funeral
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1069611781281251334Trump unlikely to trade Pence the presidency for a pardon because there's no way to save the Trump O
I have been worried that trump will resign and have pence issue him a pardon. It seems that a pardon cannot be issued to the Trump organization and that is what trump's values most. Even if pence could pardon the trump organization, the state of New York and other states will take trump and the trump organization down
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1068986653832896513
Kid Rock replaced by Waffle House shooting hero as grand marshal for Nashville Christmas parade
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1068987367682396161Houston Mayor @SylvesterTurner shares his memories of former President George H.W. Bush.
As a Houstonian, I have mixed feelings about GHW Bush. I voted against him twice but I know what he did for the city. We hosted the G8 summit during his term and there are some light pillars that you drive by when going to the Bush International Airport from that summit.
GHW Bush wrote a letter to the DNC stating that Houston would be a great place for the Democratic National convention in 2020. Here are some comments from Mayor Turner on GHW Bush
.https://twitter.com/AdamBennettKHOU/status/1068952576387923970
Corsi has only raised $3,500 of his $250K legal defense fund after 4 days of begging
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1068955286642282497Luckovich-Read My Lips
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1068949151176687617Top GOP Senator Says Texas Is 'No Longer A Reliably Red State'
I often referred to Cornyn as senator boxturtle because this idiot thinks that same sex marriage is the same as someone marrying a box turtle. Democrats have been winning the big cities for a while and the Texas Democratic Party has expanded its emphasis on the suburbs which has Cornyn nervous https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-cornyn-texas-purple-state_us_5bfe3706e4b030172fa83705?fbclid=IwAR0aH7lIN7aOwrRdYRyYcq5ejyc9mdKYQwDN7r0jEY6qNO8LDdzxucEB1zk
Cornyn, who was first elected to the Senate in 2002, was discussing the hotly contested midterm Senate race between Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Cruz managed to eke out a win by about 3 percentage points but his narrow victory cast a spotlight on a changing Texas, Cornyn said.
“Texas is no longer, I believe, a reliably red state,” the senator told Hewitt. “We are on the precipice of turning purple, and we’ve got a lot of work to do to keep it red, because we lost, we got blown out in the urban areas” in the Cruz-O’Rourke race.
“We got beat in the suburbs, which used to be our traditional strongholds,” he said. “And if it wasn’t for the rural areas of the state, where Senator Cruz won handily, it might not have turned out the way it did.”
Beto won the counties with the largest populations but was killed in the rural counties.
Texas is turning blue and Senator Boxturtle needs to be worried.
Top GOP Senator Says Texas Is 'No Longer A Reliably Red State'
I often referred to Cornyn as senator boxturtle because this idiot thinks that same sex marriage is the same as someone marrying a box turtle. Democrats have been winning the big cities for a while and the Texas Democratic Party has expanded its emphasis on the suburbs which has Cornyn nervous https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-cornyn-texas-purple-state_us_5bfe3706e4b030172fa83705?fbclid=IwAR0aH7lIN7aOwrRdYRyYcq5ejyc9mdKYQwDN7r0jEY6qNO8LDdzxucEB1zk
Cornyn, who was first elected to the Senate in 2002, was discussing the hotly contested midterm Senate race between Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Cruz managed to eke out a win by about 3 percentage points but his narrow victory cast a spotlight on a changing Texas, Cornyn said.
“Texas is no longer, I believe, a reliably red state,” the senator told Hewitt. “We are on the precipice of turning purple, and we’ve got a lot of work to do to keep it red, because we lost, we got blown out in the urban areas” in the Cruz-O’Rourke race.
“We got beat in the suburbs, which used to be our traditional strongholds,” he said. “And if it wasn’t for the rural areas of the state, where Senator Cruz won handily, it might not have turned out the way it did.”
Beto won the counties with the largest populations but was killed in the rural counties.
Texas is turning blue and Senator Boxturtle needs to be worried.
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