that video reminds of the dying dogs infomercials

This post was edited by Plaquelord on Apr 18 2018 05:06pm

romney was running against a black man

One person called them leeches and another person stars on a reality TV show.

yuge difference that's why i think the next nominee will be black male or female

Half-black man.

Hillary had Obama and Bill "first black president" Clinton campaigning for her often. I think it's notable that he did better than Romney in 2012, because part of the leftist narrative was that Trump is a racist.

Plus, Trump did better with Hispanics and Asian-Americans as well.

the issue is the black community understood quite well that the Obamas dont like the Clintons, and that it was damage control for Barry's legacy rather than actual endorsement. That and Slick Willy sticking his foot in his mouth every chance he got.

I know it felt hallow at the time, especially as the GWB-Obama family connections were all over the place.

lol

Pretty much this, I guess Romney performed very badly with hispanics since he was unapproachable and elitist. So his latino performance set the bar really low.

Trump certainly had more appeal to working class latinos than Romney, and to latinos who have been in the country for decades and see and feel the adverse effects of unrestricted immigration in their own communities. And to latinos that came into the country legally, who didnt violate laws, who played by the rules instead of shitting on them.

Those points aside, it's not like Trump was blowing it out of the water with latinos, not like he exceeded Romney's low latino performance by a lot. It's not like he miraculously had a great latino vote on the magnitude of what W. Bush had... it's just that pundits predicted his latino vote to be really abysmal, and it wasnt.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Apr 19 2018 02:33am

Testament to how powerful an economic message can be, and how little identity politics actually matters to the average voter. I know Republicans love to say that it drives people away, but it really only affects people who pay attention to the minutiae of politics on a day to day basis.

"I'll bring back garbage jobs" really resonates with people who refuse to accept those jobs aren't coming back.

Another reason why Bernie would have slaughtered Trump in the general. He had a more popular economic message than Hillary or Trump.

#maga
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/18/workers-see-crumbs-biggest-wall-street-banks-have-already-pocketed-25-billion-trump