**** Elections thread *****

[CoccoBill]

I had to examine the data my own damn self

Where's this data?

[wufwugy]

Where's this data?

Nothing spectacular, just demographics and vote distribution. It's piecemeal.

Basically what happened is Obama was able to secure the entire South, where blacks make up close to half of the Democratic primary, and where the rest of the votes are white. Texas and Florida are not traditional South in the amount of Hispanics and that Florida is sorta Neo New Jersey. They both went to Hillary, as she always played well in both demographics. Obama secured about 80% of the black vote, which was unprecedented. Because of this, Obama crushed her in places she would have otherwise been strong, like Maryland and Virginia.

Today, the media tacitly acknowledges that the story would have been different if Obama hadn't gotten such high support among black voters. They like saying how Sanders can't beat Hillary because he doesn't have the black support Obama did. So even if he wins all the primaries not heavy in black voters that Obama did, he won't be able to get anywhere close in the South.

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This is what I'm talking about. Just because a lot of people who are not Republicans think this is true doesn't make it true.

The myth is so pervasive that it may take a black GOP nominee to start dismembering it. So yeah, where you think a significant chunk of Republicans will balk at the idea of a Carson nominee, I don't. Not only are the vast majority of conservatives not racist, but everybody is so fucking sick of being called racist at every turn that being black helps him.

The amount of racism in the Democratic party is huge, but the only (only!) time anybody talks about racism is when a Republican does it. Nevermind so much of the overt racism in the Northeast and Midwest. Nevermind that Democrats push the racist policies and get the "racist outcomes". Nevermind that the places where blacks have it the worst have been ruled with nearly an iron fist by Democrats for nearly fifty years. But when the Republican party itself denounces the Confederate flag, a flag that is usually held up for reasons more complex than just racism, the Republicans are still the party of racists. The racism in the left is so ridiculous that its candidates get bullied by activists and have to apologize to them for suggesting that black lives aren't the only ones that matter.

This bullshit will bite the Democrats in the ass big time. If Carson turns out to be a strong candidate, he will win the nomination then destroy the left's coalition, and he'll do so while getting every bit as much of the southern white vote as white men do. Nevermind that the south is by far the least segregated part of the country as is.

You read my post with bias and decided that I said something I didn't.

It's like you were trying to bait a liberal and had already typed a response.