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In reply to the discussion: It tells us nothing at this point that HRC beats Bernie among women and poc. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Nobody denies that.
All I really said in the OP is that it's early yet and things can change.
And that well-known candidates tend to do better in polling, in any group anywhere you could poll, than candidates just entering the race.
Nothing in that assertion came anywhere close to arguing that the groups being discussed were idiots or that I know what's good for them more than they do.
Bernie has work to do. He and his campaign will do that work. And he's got a good case to make to all those groups based on his record, a case a lot of them simply haven't heard yet(as most voters everywhere in the country haven't heard it yet).
It's not like he doesn't have any right to try to get support among those groups.
Question:
Why is it such a big thing for Bernie to make a specific appeal to those groups when nobody demanded that of Bill Clinton(who, frankly, never did a damn thing to earn support among any group other than CEO's and bitter Southern white dudes).