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According to Obama, one of the biggest challenges he and his fellow Democrats face is figuring out how to recapture the white working class voters who voted for him — and didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton.
“I think that part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively,” he said. “Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grass-roots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments. That part of the critique of the Democratic Party is accurate. We spend a lot of time focused on international policy and national policy and less time being on the ground. And when we’re on the ground, we do well.”
Back to 2011 when Obama was preparing for re-election...
For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.
I guess they forgot that this was their plan... and they did a great job abandoning the white vote.
Blame Fox News... blame grass roots efforts... blame an improper focus... yeah - you are not going to reach white voters effectively by abandoning them and calling them deplorables, racists, and uneducated. What a bunch of goofballs...
It's been kind of the reverse of what they criticize as the "Southern strategy", explicitly targeting minorities and demonizing non-elite whites. They never figured that the group they were uniting against, still a solid majority of all voters, might get fed up and reject them en masse. The South is still solidly Republican for the most part, despite having a higher percentage of minorities than the nation as a whole. The Democrats have strategized themselves into a situation where non-elite whites nationally will vote almost as solidly Republican as white Southerners.
According to Obama, one of the biggest challenges he and his fellow Democrats face is figuring out how to recapture the white working class voters who voted for him — and didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton.
“I think that part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively,†he said. “Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grass-roots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments. That part of the critique of the Democratic Party is accurate. We spend a lot of time focused on international policy and national policy and less time being on the ground. And when we’re on the ground, we do well.â€
Back to 2011 when Obama was preparing for re-election...
For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.
I guess they forgot that this was their plan... and they did a great job abandoning the white vote.
Blame Fox News... blame grass roots efforts... blame an improper focus... yeah - you are not going to reach white voters effectively by abandoning them and calling them deplorables, racists, and uneducated. What a bunch of goofballs...
Democrats made it as clear as anything could be made clear that working-class white males (like me) are fundamentally ignorant, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant homophobes and, based on the strength of their bulging coalition of diverse supporters, that they didn't really need our white male votes anyway.
Moreover, based on the preponderance of the Democrat's anti-white male rhetoric, the working-class white male who still pulls the lever for Democrats would have to be so self-loathing and disconnected from any sense of individual purpose or moral predisposition that simply making his way to the voting booth without stepping in from of a bus would be a feat in itself.
The reality now is that we are recounting votes in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and my home state of Michigan because the same people who told us to go **** ourselves before the election are unhappy with the terms of our separation.
GOP propaganda tastes good. America bending over nicely for Wall Street. Keep pretending 1000 jobs in Indiana is some huge win.
I don't know... you can ask those 1000 people who still have a job what they think... or the surrounding community where those 1000 people spend the money they make from the jobs they still have - you can ask those communities what they think as well.
Democrats made it as clear as anything could be made clear that working-class white males (like me) are fundamentally ignorant, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant homophobes and, based on the strength of their bulging coalition of diverse supporters, that they didn't really need our white male votes anyway.
Moreover, based on the preponderance of the Democrat's anti-white male rhetoric, the working-class white male who still pulls the lever for Democrats would have to be so self-loathing and disconnected from any sense of individual purpose or moral predisposition that simply making his way to the voting booth without stepping in from of a bus would be a feat in itself.
The reality now is that we are recounting votes in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and my home state of Michigan because the same people who told us to go **** ourselves before the election are unhappy with the terms of our separation.
I don't know... you can ask those 1000 people who still have a job what they think... or the surrounding community where those 1000 people spend the money they make from the jobs they still have - you can ask those communities what they think as well.
those folks who represent the distal end of the alimentary canal don't really care about workers or jobs or wages. They are all about divisiveness and 'us against them' and bringing illegal immigrants to this country en masse. They really can't fathom how conservatives won this election cycle. DUH!
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