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So, is this seen as a potential issue within the party?
"Even so, the Harris-for-VP talk highlights a very real issue for Democrats going forward. The party’s base is disproportionately black and brown, and increasingly young, progressive and female. Biden, the frontrunner, is none of those things. If he continues to dominate the polls — a big if, considering that Iowa is still nine months away — then he will eventually come under tremendous pressure to ensure that his ticket reflects the party he seeks to lead. The same pressure would apply to any of the other white guys angling to take Biden’s place should he stumble."
Contrary to what the right believes, Democrats do not vote for a candidate only based on race and/or gender. President Obama was a popular president. Biden had a hand in his policy accomplishments extending his arm to the GOP to help get legislatures passed even when the GOP tried to block Obama at every turn. Biden has experience and a record of public service that expands beyond anyone in the field. Biden has a great chance of beating the bully, Trump.
Contrary to what the right believes, Democrats do not vote for a candidate only based on race and/or gender. President Obama was a popular president. Biden had a hand in his policy accomplishments extending his arm to the GOP to help get legislatures passed even when the GOP tried to block Obama at every turn. Biden has experience and a record of public service that expands beyond anyone in the field. Biden has a great chance of beating the bully, Trump.
The left had been bullying everybody for years ... then they ran into a real bully and they don't like it.
It's sort of like the NFL - - somewhere around two-thirds of the players are minorities but only three of the 32 coaches are. The pipeline to both need to have more people of color (senators/representatives for politics; offensive and defensive coordinators for football) on the ladder before the presidential and coaching candidates will reflect the base better.
The Democratic party does have a broad ethnic representation, and is welcoming of diversity, but most Democrats are Caucasians. I don't see what is surprising about it.
Most Democratic party supporters are white, and most Democratic party politicians across the country are white, so it does make sense that many if not most candidates for the nomination to a nationwide office would be white.
It's sort of like the NFL - - somewhere around two-thirds of the players are minorities but only three of the 32 coaches are. The pipeline to both need to have more people of color (senators/representatives for politics; offensive and defensive coordinators for football) on the ladder before the presidential and coaching candidates will reflect the base better.
The demographics of America are still 2/3rds white though. Although in 2020 the consensus is that the under 18 population in the US will be a minority major for the first time ever, the population is still mostly white. If 2/3 of Government is white, that wouldn't surprise me not one iota.
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